Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150225151532/@comment-4189499-20150226023320

PS, the stacking of adjectives was in relation to the "very-insanely" proposal, as "very" is an adverb of a sort that is different from most others (this atricle suggests the name meta-adverb be more appropriate for words in its class) as it can modify other adverbs and adjectives as well as acting in its normal adverbial function. That is why a sentence like "very insanely hard" still makes grammatical sense, even if it sounds terrible, as the word "very" is modifying the word "insanely" to say that it is more insane than normal insane, which is definitely not what the proposal wanted from the wording. "Medium-easy" and "medium-hard" don't have this problem because of the types of words "medium", "easy" and "hard" are, which are adjectives that cannot modify other parts of speech (if you wanted them to modify a verb, you'd have to use words such as "easily"). They just look like you're confused and therefore couldn't decide whether they were easy, medium or hard, so you wrote them all. It's definitely better to us a modifier such as "somewhat" to define the different levels of difficulty, for the clarity of both readers and editors.