Timeline for "More" and "most" with some adjectives
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 7:38 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Jun 27, 2017 at 22:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/879832705877368833 | ||
| Jun 26, 2017 at 20:44 | comment | added | ColleenV | Tangentially related : Difference between “illegal” and “very illegal” I'm linking it here because I think it might be also be interesting to someone interested in this question. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 18:49 | history | edited | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 15:22 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | If you thought there was only one pen in the world, and then you found another one, that would make it less unique, not more unique. That said, the dictionary may say unique means "the only one of its kind," but, thankfully, English isn't constrained to strict definitions of words. A lot of music, for example, is said to have a very unique rhythm. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @Cardinal That reminded me of "pretty dead", "ultimately alive", "entirely terrified" and "totally impossible". | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 14:33 | answer | added | SteveES | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:52 | comment | added | Cardinal | Fine, I am saying that non-grading adverbs are all intensifiers. This page explains it very interestingly. Have a look If you want: lognlearn.jimdo.com/grammar-tips/adverbs/… | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:42 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @Cardinal Disagree. I wouldn't ever use it in any other context. Yet, writers somehow manage to use "utterly silent" sometimes which is really just a more emphatic way of saying "silent" with more stress on the "absence of sound". | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | Cardinal | I think "silent" does not always mean "without a single sound". Does it? | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:34 | comment | added | SovereignSun | "absolutely silent" means totally without a sound. Now how different is totally without a sound from "without a sound"? | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:33 | comment | added | Cardinal | I said that, unique is no longer unique, thanks to the people grading it! | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:33 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @Cardinal It's not grammatically wrong. However, it can ask many questions as to how absolutely unique is it? It there something even more absolutely unique than this? Imaging that there exists only one pen in the whole world and it is unique, then they find another one and what? It's even more unique? And then a third one and it's completely unique? Wouldn't that make no sense? | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | Cardinal | I see. I didn't mean you use "unique" with those adverbs. I was talking about non-gradable adjectives e.g., silent. You can say "the room was absolutely silent" and I don't think it's wrong. side note: I don't think "absolutely unique" in current English is considered as "wrong" | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:13 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @Cardinal With respect, "completely unique" and "absolutely unique" still doesn't make any sense. "unique" is already the superlative, there's "rare" for something less outstanding. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:09 | history | edited | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:06 | comment | added | Cardinal | I think that's because many people suddenly start to use wrong phrases. For example, if you observe"very unique" exactly, you will find it blatantly wrong. By the way, regarding these non-gradable adjectives I think we should use adverbs like completely and absolutely. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:06 | answer | added | bobsmith76 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 12:57 | history | asked | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |