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Selah
Grammatically, what does "Cute as!" mean?
In conversational English, what do native speakers mean when they say "That's cute as!" or "Awesome as!" ? Is the word "as" just emphasising the adjective, or is any phrase or word dropped after?
25 août 2011 10:16
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It's half a simile, as in Ashmann's explanantion: "cute as a button". The general meaning is "very cute indeed", but the comparison is dropped to make the listener imagine what the thing is cute as. You'd use this in a slangy casual conversation, but not in regular daily speech.
This series ran on TV a while ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=606eK4abteQ
The main character is "beached az", which implies "beached as a whale"... errr, but he is a whale.
25 août 2011
Language changes over time and so nowadays teenagers say this a lot
25 août 2011
yes it is.. it all started with the saying "cute as a button" (dont ask me why a button)...just meant very cute, then got shortened to "cute as", then they started with other words, such as "stupid as" "sexy as" etc etc...
25 août 2011
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Selah
Compétences linguistiques
Chinois (mandarin), Anglais, Français, Japonais, Espagnol
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Chinois (mandarin), Anglais, Français, Espagnol
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