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Sashadroogie
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Dear Johnslat
Tone is everything... quite...
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sui jin
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I normally use both 'quite ' and 'pretty' as modifiers to mean fairly - 'he is quite clever'. 'How are you ? - Pretty good' (meaning, just OK).
Both may have taken on the meaning of ' very ' as an example of figurative euphemism (or the opposite of hyperbole) - 'wow, that's pretty cool!' |
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braindead
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| whenever i see people use "quite", it's because they misspelled "quiet". |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| True. Happens quiet often... |
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