The Strange Death of Intense Words @languagejones
The Strange Death of Intense Words  @languagejones
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Words keep getting upgraded and discarded because we get used to them, try to make them more intense, and in the end, the original word goes through a death of sorts. It's time to talk about it, and how we're getting a brand new grammatical construction in English.

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