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Old 03-10-2008, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Ronin-Talgar View Post
Sounding kinda Orwellian there Rebellion. Double-plus job.
Orwellian? Exaggerate much?
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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.


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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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