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- From: benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: quite unique (sorry!)
- Message-ID: <28265@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:56:37 GMT
- Distribution: alt
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- Thanks everyone for helping to solve my original query - as some people
- noted it was more to do with the usage of 'quite' than 'unique'.
-
- Perhaps the usage of 'quite' meaning 'truly' (as in the example 'he was
- quite dead') is just British, but this is the meaning I want to pair
- with unique.
-
- Note: Someone would only accept 'quite' if you could also have 'not
- quite', and accepted 'quite dead' on this basis. But I disagree with
- this reasoning. 'Quite dead' and 'not quite dead' are not opposites.
-
- Ben Hambidge.
-
- P.S. What is the FAQ and where do I get it?
-