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Why are gladder, madder, sadder words but badder and gooder are not?

Posted - May 23

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  • 10493
    Who says they're not?  I hear them used all the time?  

    "I'm badder than bad"

    "How much gooder are you?" 


      May 23, 2024 1:13 PM MDT
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  • 1923
    Well, acording to the strict vernacular English orthodoxy of words they are not but are a sublimational abberration and convolution of slang to meet ones emotionality of the moment I guess thus American stupidity. This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at May 24, 2024 8:48 AM MDT
      May 23, 2024 1:17 PM MDT
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  • 44334
    Hell, yes.
      May 23, 2024 7:19 PM MDT
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  • 44334
    That's ghetto speak.
      May 23, 2024 7:18 PM MDT
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