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- Subject: Re: quite unique
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- In <1992Nov16.192525.27740@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
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- >I believe we should only use "quite" if we can use "not quite" in the
- >same place. We can, for example, say that someone is "not quite dead",
- >meaning "barely alive". This makes sense because dying is a process,
- >and one can well advanced in this process without yet being dead.
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- >But what would "not quite unique" mean?
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- Two of a kind?
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