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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: quite unique
- Message-ID: <11634@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:38:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.045256.12209@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov14.223624.20511@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Nov15.001709.14852@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov16.044517.15622@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <BxuLyG.1nI@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- In article <BxuLyG.1nI@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- <In <1992Nov16.044517.15622@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- <
- <>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"?
- <
- <If you use 'freezing' to mean 'really cold' as in 'I'm freezing', then
- <what word will you use when you really mean freezing?
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- Er, if your blood is really turning into ice (or whatever it is called
- that is to blood as ice is to water), you won't be able to say much
- anyway, will you? :-)
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