Talk:way too

RFV discussion: May–June 2017

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way too

Rfv-sense "very".__Gamren (talk) 10:10, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

I think its OK, maybe the two senses can be merged. DonnanZ (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Move to RFD? Ƿidsiþ 17:08, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Huh, I've never parsed this as a single unit. I'm pretty sure "way" just functions as an intensifying adverb here... "Way too much" isn't "way too"+ "much", it's "way" + "too much". Andrew Sheedy (talk) 17:25, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

You're right, I didn't think of that. From Oxford:

1.1North American [as submodifier] Much.

‘I was cycling way too fast’

More example sentences:

‘If he is moving along too fast or seems to like you way more than you like him, let him go.’

‘People may mock, but it's way better than my real social life.’

‘I'd actually always thought she was way cooler than him, and was keen to hang out.’

‘They find it hard to charge for their services; they usually give way more than they ask for, and this means they scrape by.’

‘You should just become a rocker; it would be easier to explain and looks way cooler.’

DonnanZ (talk) 18:25, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it's hardly idiomatic, but is there an idiomatic English term? I had referred thither from the translations of all too, but suddenly I'm not sure whether those are even synonyms, and on reviewing the corpus it seems like all too really just means "very" with no additional meaning of excess (and for some reason it tends to appear hyphenatedly, as in all-too-human or all-too-common).__Gamren (talk) 18:46, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

RFV-failed'Kiwima (talk) 06:24, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

way too many : SoP

In there're way too many cars, is it way too + many or way + too many ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:40, 30 August 2021 (UTC)