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- From: thayes@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: quite unique research? (round 1)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.094020.5627@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:40:20 EST
- References: <1992Nov15.145943.5614@desire.wright.edu> <1992Nov16.035345.9575@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- Honestly, Roger, you have *completely* lost sight of the nature of this
- posting. I tracked down the summary opinion of "experts" and usage
- guides and dictionaries. I presented them in a responsible manner, making very
- few points based on my own opinions on the matter.
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- You seem to imply that I have invented these summary opinions to launch
- an attack. On the contrary, I think some of my findings support your
- claims *to a limited extent*. But you seem as uninterested in this relatively
- non-partisan summary as you are in opinions that run contrary to Evans^^2.
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- Sure, I could post every motherloving paragraph from each source -- I would note
- that Mr. Read has posted the Fowler's argument -- but so what? They are
- there, *you* can go look them up as I suggested if you don't believe me.
- You already went overboard attacking *me* for the Webtster's usage guide
- extract that I did post -- now why would I want you to attack me for *other*
- opinions too? That wouldn't be smart, Roger, you must admit.
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- RL>Time for a reality check. Are you *honestly* saying that any of the
- > folks above disallow *all* modifiers for "unique"? Including "really"
- > and "truly" and "more nearly" and "in some/every sense" and so on?
- > "Unique" can obviously be modified; the question is: how?
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- See Roger? I spent many, many lines of posting explaining the opinions of a
- usage guide that stated how the modification may or may not be justified,
- but you have chosen to ignore that. In this matter, sir, you need
- the reality check.
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- I will comment again later...
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- -----ted hayes
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