> > I just heard some guy pitching loans on TV. He told me I could have a loan approved in minutes and qualify for "Up to $50,000 or more." Wouldn't the "up to" limit it to the fifty grand?
> > Howard
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> Hmmmm... Up to $50,000 or more.
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> I hate when people misuse the english language. They just don't think before they speak.
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> Another pet hate is the combination "very unique". Unique means "one of a kind" so to say something is very unique is to say it is very one of a kind. How can something be very one of a kind, it either is, or it isn't.
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> ladada(I didn't care until my Dad pointed it out. Now I can't stand it)dada

Well, that depends on the topic. When "unique" is used to describe art, it typically means "worthy of being put in its own class." Therefore, one could describe a new style of sculpture, say, as "more unique" than a set of paintings done using only corn oils and corn paper, because, in that sense, it is equivalent to "That sculpture is more worthy of its own class than those paintings." Or at least that is how it was explained to me. Language is a very fickle thing, and meanings can be stretched and warped through the different usages of many different groups. It's often very difficult (counting only diction, not grammar) to tell people that they have used a word incorrectly because of this. For those of us who don't like this aspect, learn Esperanto.

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