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[bacasper]

We don't say "very delicious," do we? Isn't it like being pregnant? Something is either delicious, or it's not. Some things aren't just a little delicious, are they?

[tomato]

No, we say "just delicious."
I don't know what the difference is between "very" and "just."

On that other matter, a woman expecting twins would be twice as pregnant as a woman expecting a single birth.
But then again, since the vast majority of the births in our species are single births, the mean, median, and mode would all be close to 1.
Maybe if a female animal is in a species which litters are usually born, but is expecting a single birth or an unusually small litter, that female could be considered a little pregnant.

[jadarite]

When "very" sounds strange, I try it out with "quite" instead for emphasis. I have had two levels of "deliciousness" before, so I see nothing wrong with "quite delicious".

If you totally cancel out "very" and "quite" then how do you explain "A is more delicious than B"? Both A and B could be delicious.

On the issue of pregnancy, this is time-based. It's not subjective like taste. What's delicious to you might not be delicious to me. However, a woman is pregnant regardless what we think.

[tomato]

My father, who was an English prof, had a rule against saying "very unique," since "unique" means "one of a kind."
But I argue that an item differing greatly from other kinds is more unique than an item differing slightly from other kinds.

Consider the hierarchy of kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
If a plant or animal is the only one on a higher level, it would be more unique than a plant or animal on a lower level.

[semphoon]

I dont think its "very delicious." Delicious is already the highest state of tasting good. Just like "very wonderful/excellent" doesnt make any sense.

Quite wonderful/delicious seems to make more sense as quite softens the tone

Before I came to Korea I NEVER used the word 'delicious.' Or the word 'kind.' I tell my students to use the word 'tasty' or 'tastes good' as that seems more in line with the natural way of speaking.

[shifty]

That's one word Koreans seem to be at ease with and use it aplenty.
They don't know that natives find it a bit of a mouthful, or at least I do.

I say deli or I say......... ah mmmmm as I chomp away.

[jackson7]

Where then, on the scale of deliciousness, do flavoriffic, scrum-diddly-umptious, and yippity-yum-yum fall? I would argue that flavoriffic falls just short of quite delicious but higher than just delicious. Scrum-diddly-umptious I save for my mom's home-baked cookies, and yippity-yum-yum is for food that is spicy but not hot, sweet but not rich, and tangy but not sour.

"Is it delicious Jackson?"

"It is indeed delicious my good Mr. Kim. One with a well-educated palette could go as far as to say it is quite delicious."

[TBirdMG]

'so delicious.'

[OiGirl]

quite delicious.

[bondjimbond]

I've definitely encountered "very pregnant" and variants in conversation and literature, and I would counter that for "delicious", since multiple levels can be found, multiple modifiers can be added, including "very". Hell, I've heard "very delicious" before in everyday speech, though personally I'm more fond of "quite".

[moosehead]

no doubt some of you just haven't acquired the sophisticated palate necessary to distinguish when something is very delicious vs. just delicious vs. delicious

[bacasper]

[PRagic]

de-FUKin-LIcious.

[Draz]

[bogey666]