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There’s a whole category of intensifiers which implicate the real: genuinely, actually, really, truly, seriously, substantially, very, definitely
Then there are intensifiers which implicate the imaginary: fabulously, unbelievably, incredibly, fantastically, impossibly, miraculously
It’s genuinely incredibly interesting to me how compatible these usages are!
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