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



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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