is this really a debate? You have to be a massive pedant to possibly want to argue against it.
It's fine to use mad to mean "angry"—even if doing so makes some people mad.http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/can-mad-mean-angry …
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Or anti-historical - mad meaning angry is from Middle English, 700 years ago.
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For sure, I don't find inclined to ask it. I'd be mad to do so and my survivors would probably be really mad!
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I'd say this tweet makes me mad but other people probably already said that and that makes me angry. :/
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How annoying.
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This is the dictionary's definition of FUCKING SAVAGEpic.twitter.com/uCq9V7fGy7
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it's meant angry for literally my entire life and everyone I know uses it that way so yeah
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Disagree.
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Madness meaning angry has been used since Middle English. Go troll elsewhere.
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: Taking the Humpty-Dumpty approach to language... and the Library of Babel approach to information.
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"Get mad" vs. "go mad."
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I was genuinely not even aware there was a debate about this tbqh
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I literally logged into Twitter in a browser like it's 2011 to <3 this Tweet.
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If the subject is male, either "mad" or "angry" now imply not emotion but mental illness, and a probable threat.
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Noah Webster died a long time ago. As far as I'm concerned this is a fraud and a sham. There. That's my troll for the day.
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Mad meaning angry comes from Middle English, 700 years ago. Go troll elsewhere.
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Say my name.
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fine, but the Shakespeare excerpt you cite in support of mad/angry reads pretty clearly as mad/crazy usage to me.
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