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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Adjective or adverb + savvy

Should we say

technology-savvy & political savvy

or

technologically savvy & politically savvy?

The latter sounds right to me, but I think the former is more common... Emotion: thinking The former just seems like a weird word order: noun + single adjective... Instead of angry man... man angry??

And for an antonym, should we say

technology incompetent & political incompetent

or

technologically incompetent & politically incompetent

Thanks
  

Top answer

'Savvy' is a noun, so we are just forming a compound noun ( noun + noun, a common process) with ' political savvy ' (a very common compound) and 'technology savvy' (one I have not heard, but one I would have thought would emerge as 'techno-savvy'). The second of your proposed antonyms is the correct structure ('politically incompetent'), but not antonymous because it is adverb + adjective. The antonym would be ' political incompetence '.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Savvy' is a noun, so we are just forming a compound noun ( noun + noun, a common process) with ' political savvy ' (a very common compound) and 'technology savvy' (one I have not heard, but one I would have thought would emerge as 'techno-savvy').
  • The second of your proposed antonyms is the correct structure ('politically incompetent'), but not antonymous because it is adverb + adjective.
  • The antonym would be ' political incompetence '.
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'Savvy' is a noun, so we are just forming a compound noun ( noun + noun, a common process) with 'political savvy' (a very common compound) and 'technology savvy' (one I have not heard, but one I would have thought would emerge as 'techno-savvy').

The second of your proposed antonyms is the correct structure ('politically incompetent'), but not antonymous because it is adverb + adj
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Ah, right. Thank you.
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