Friday, October 2, 2015

Detail #213: A Cornucopia of Intensifiers

Make adjective intensification a very complicated affair - basically, each adjective has a small set of permissible intensifiers. 

One thing might be to restrict the semantic fields you permit combinations of. For instance, you maybe don't want a thing to be shiningly big or hotly loud or something, i.e. go for rather coherent semantic thing. Also, you may want to avoid seeming contradictions: hotly cold, strongly sick, ...

Now, you let meanings drift, yet keep the associations fixed.


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