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- Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:54 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: He's good looking / He's not bad looking
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He's good looking / He's not bad looking
What is the term used to describe the above, when we change the phrase to a negative plus opposite in order to be more indirect (to express criticism or generalisation?) E.g. She's always late/She's never early or He's very mean/ He's not over-generous. Do we have a reference term for this in Englis...