From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Mar 21 2009 - 14:34:05 CST
On 2009-03-21 12:55, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
>>
>>> That's quite a stupid question:
>> Was that called for?
>
> I used the term volontarly with a "quite" just before to moderate it.
In all the dialects of English that I am familiar with, "quite" in that
context emphasizes rather than moderates, so that your statement had
exactly the opposite effect of what you evidently intended.
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