Let's put this issue to rest. As Bill Luebkert said in a previous response,
"awful" was being used as an intensifier.
An adverb which is used to modify adjectives and adverbs, but which is not
usually used to modify verbs, can be referred to as an intensifier. In the
following examples, the intensifiers are surrounded by *s.
e.g.,
I am *very* happy.
The film was *quite* good.
You did that *rather* well.
Must you leave *so* soon?
Jan did an *awful* lot of work.
The *intensifiers* carry little or no meaning by themselves in these sentences.
Their purpose is to INTENSIFY or accentuate, or highlight, the adjective or
adverb they are attached to.
One might say "This pen writes *awfully* well." This would mean that the pen
writes *very* well. It does NOT mean that the pen writes awfully because, when
used as an intensifier, the word carries no meaning.
The following words are commonly used as intensifiers:
awful
damn
fairly
quite
rather
really (informal)
so
too
very
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Bryan Keller, Doctoral Student/Project Assistant
Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 8:07 am
Subject: Re: Perl6 though IIS7 CGI
To: Francisco Zarabozo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected],
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Francisco,
>
> My guess is that, with his English deficiency, he substituted awful
> for
> awesome, thinking they had synonymous denotations. Or, mayhap he read
>
> "awful" as being "awe-ful," meaning the same as awesome.....
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Deane Rothenmaier
> Programmer/Analyst
> Walgreens Corp.
> 224-542-5150
>
> Everything should be made as simple as possible...but not simpler. -
> Albert Einstein
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