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Re: ot- I could hardly fail to disagree with you less.

By me, litotic constructions are not unfavored. (Points to those who
know the name of the construction just used. Hint, by way of example:
On the computer you want me to write?)


On May 13, at 5:40 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
Avrom Fischer wrote:
My wife and I have read this sentence as well as the paragraph
from Patricia referred to several times. Is Flash say he agrees
with Patricia in general but is unwilling to stand 100% with her
for whatever reason or is he providing Patricia with a sentence to
use in her upcoming book on English Usage.

Well, I interpreted it as meaning "I couldn't agree with you more,"
but expressed by means of the figure of speech known as litotes, a
subspecies of meiosis.


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Patricia M. Godfrey
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