[Ads-l] badassedness

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:

> The "-ed" seems to have the function of making non-canonical adjectives
> sound more adjective-like before you add a "-ness" suffix.


That's a bad-assed hypothesis.


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-Wilson
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