@CatWantsCoffee In any case, from a German perspective, I wanted to humorously point out the slight shift in meaning of "good" in the expression "goodness." After all, you can't grammatically intensify "good" in "goodness." 5/
@CatWantsCoffee I love playing with word meanings. It's often a central theme in my poetry. Haiku often thrives on the juxtaposition of such double meanings. It was my mistake to try that in English as well. Please forgive the failure of the attempt. 4/
@CatWantsCoffee The irregularity in the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective "good, better, best" is even worse in German: "gut, besser, am besten". Therefore, I rearranged a sentence in my answer so I could use "bad" instead of "worse". A play on words should suffice, I thought 3/