tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139188518911705286.post6769745820627975355..comments2024-03-28T22:04:24.994-07:00Comments on Verbal Ability: Angelina Jolie says Brad Pitt smells 'badly'Achilles's Heelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14443975987862296530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139188518911705286.post-37370086792825983722009-04-23T09:48:00.000-07:002009-04-23T09:48:00.000-07:00Actually no: your analysis, while perfectly logica...Actually no: your analysis, while perfectly logical, misses out that English has several meanings of "badly", and one of them just means "greatly, very much" as in, for instance, "I badly need a shave" (see <I>Oxford English Dictionary</I>). So you can have:<br /><br />1) "X smells bad" = "X smells unpleasant".<br />or<br />2) "X smells badly" = "X smells very much".<br /><br />Angelina Jolie is using it in sense 2).Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com