Talk:a super lot
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Anyone? Ƿidsiþ 16:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- This is an interesting one. Yes, it's SOP, but it exposes some gaps in our information. A lot takes its modifiers after the article. They can be adjectives modifying lot: "a whole lot", a "tremendous lot", etc, which one would expect if it were a productive set of functional parts. They can also be adverbs modifying the expression as a whole, as in "a very lot", which is a sort of awkward hybrid between set phrase and regular phrase. I'm not sure which category super falls into here, but I would guess it's an adverb. There are other words that function in approximately the same way: mess, bunch, etc. We don't seem to have anything that addresses "a whole lot", whether via the phrase or via an intensifier sense of whole. I think we're also missing one or more adjective senses of super having to do with a higher order or a greater size, since our existing senses hinge on quality, not on quantity or hierarchy. The phrase a whole nother figures in somewhere, as well. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:22, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- In addition to the huge lot of intensifier adjectives that can modify lot, including heckuva and helluva, I also found awfully at COCA.
- On Google Books one can find fuckuva (!!!) lot, too.
- I think this merits at least a usage note at [[a lot]], but, delete the challenged entry. DCDuring TALK 19:35, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- Delete, if you know what a lot and super mean then you know what this means. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- A super delete. bd2412 T 23:23, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
- We have the corresponding sense of lot: "A large quantity or number; a great deal: to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so". So I think this (and a whole lot et al.) should redirect either to a lot or to lot.—msh210℠ (talk) 06:54, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
- Delete. Equinox ◑ 09:54, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
deleted -- Liliana • 20:16, 29 June 2013 (UTC)