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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: quite unique
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.052332.20190@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:23:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.044517.15622@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >Roger, a question.
-
- >If you use "unique" to mean "rare" or "unusual" or "a nice knockdown
- >argument", then what word will you use when you really mean "unique"?
-
- Why, "unique" of course. (Note that "unique" *really* means "singular,"
- "rare," etc. as well as "one-of-a-kind.") I use "unique" to mean
- "one-of-a-kind" when the context makes that meaning clear. I'm also
- pretty good at fashioning appropriate contexts, they tell me.
-
- btw, I don't use "unique" to mean anything other than what my
- dictionary gives as its meanings. That's not *because* the dictionary
- says that; just happens to be that way.
-
- Roger
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