According to the dictionary.
Why we can not say “very fantastic”
but we say “absolutely fantastic”？
also what kind of adjective is like that?
2006-10-01 19:28:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
"Absolutely fantastic!' means there's no doubt about it.
You can't place 'very' before 'fantastic' because 'very' makes something more than it is..and there's nothing better than 'fantastic'.
It's a tough question, but 'fantastic' is subjective rather than objective..meaning it's your opinion rather than proven truth.
2006-10-01 19:40:50 · answer #1 · answered by Chencha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fantastic is a word like dead or pregnant. You are or you aren't. As opposed to dirty, rich or hungry. You can be a varying degree of any of those. Personally, I claim that absolutely fantastic is wrong too.
2006-10-02 02:48:19 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lol to angel. English is not the most difficult language to learn. Difficulty is a relative term and people with different background languages would find different languages more difficult or easier to learn. Furthermore, evety language has slangs, idioms, different collocations, etc. Duh! You're too stuck with yourself I think. Try to learn different languages and broaden your horizon, you seem to really need it badly.
And I know I haven't given an answer to the question but I couldn't help but say this!
2006-10-02 12:01:00 · answer #3 · answered by Earthling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The english language is the hardest ot all to learn.
There is so much slang, words sound the same
yet mean different things. Oh noooooo
2006-10-02 02:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is English language. Just accept the way the sentences get meanings. You cant change that.
2006-10-02 02:31:44 · answer #5 · answered by Rammohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
female movie stars set this in motion as a ho-chunk@ of information it a package, so the longer some of this catch phrase jargon has been with us the more you see we are communicating preferances of some old movie star=your talking "absolutely fabulous" which proves my point
2006-10-02 02:37:59 · answer #6 · answered by bev 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'absolutely' is just a word some people like to use, meaning "in the highest degree". And I don't mind it!
2006-10-02 14:50:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mondschein! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋