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  nekoyama

  I just read it as half-baked I think, just throwing around a few random quotes from dictionaries.

  I agree on bunpro’s wording being a bit too strict, in particular the claim that it doesn’t appear in literature is just incorrect. And people use it in other writing too, in particular informal channels that are close to spoken language anyway like Twitter.

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  coffee126

  Pretty late jumping in here, but if い-adjective plus です is considered incorrect, what is considered correct?

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  Fuga

  Hey @coffee126 !

  To make い-adjectives polite, people used ございます. For example, 楽しいです was 楽しゅうございます, and 美味しいです was 美味しゅうございます. However, because people thought this was too long and exaggerated for daily conversation, people started to use い-adjectives + です instead. Due to this, in 1952 the Japanese Language Council stated that い-adjective + です is acceptable. However, because this is a recent change, some people still consider it incorrect and think that it sounds unnatural.

  I hope this answers your question!