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Quite
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:34 am
by JuanTwoThree
Can you reconcile the ungradable and the gradable use of "quite" into a core meaning of "quite"?
Can we stay away from quite piffling arguments, which are quite sterile, about which words are quite gradable and which are quite ungradable and stick to the quite fascinating question above?
Re: Quite
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:52 am
by metal56
JuanTwoThree wrote:Can you reconcile the ungradable and the gradable use of "quite" into a core meaning of "quite"?
I can't.
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:54 am
by JuanTwoThree
Quite so. Nor can I.
5 day "puente" and it's slinging it down, metal56?
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:13 am
by metal56
JuanTwoThree wrote:Quite so. Nor can I.
5 day "puente" and it's slinging it down, metal56?
Working today. Students in France, Germany and Italy on the phone.
3 days to play as from tomorrow though.
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:01 pm
by lolwhites
Nor can I, but there's nothing radical about a lexical item having more than one meaning. When we try to put words into boxes (as we have to do, realistically), there are always going to be a few that don't neatly fit in.