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05-20-2018, 08:18 PM
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(05-19-2018 11:01 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  
(05-19-2018 07:25 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  “The building was pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings.” John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize for Literature (1962).

Steinbeck? Are you trying to bring some culture and class to this group? Nice start, but it's a big job. Smile

No pedantry intended. I just wanted a literary example and Steinbeck’s was the first one I could find. I fail to perceive these as “funny”, though. To me, “pretty” and “little” above sound like ordinary adverbs, not the antonyms of “beautiful” and “big”. I tend to use “somewhat” instead of “little” (somewhat big), and to interpret “pretty” as “very” (very ugly), but Merriam-Webster says it’s equivalent to “quite”, which is less intense than “very” (quite ugly).
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RE: Voyage200 - Gerson W. Barbosa - 05-19-2018, 07:25 PM
RE: Voyage200 - rprosperi - 05-19-2018, 11:01 PM
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