The use of litotes is common in English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Dutch, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, French, Czech and Slovak, and is prevalent in some other languages and dialects. It is a feature of Old English poetry and of the Icelandic sagas and is a means of much stoical restraint.
It’s Southern or Hillbilly slang.
If you want to read more about it do searches for: “use of the word “some” as an intensifier”
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/321316/can-i-use-some-as-a-synonym-of-very
Ahhh, ok. Makes sense when I read it in that accent.
This is
very, veryquite similar to the British use of “quite” to mean “extremely”.Fun fact: that has a name! It’s called Litotes
So not ALL languages? TIL
I’ve heard this a lot on the east coast of Canada as well.