‘Unique' means one, no other, Chuck. If he’s done it before you can’t call it
unique. And it caused me no confusion (otherwise I should have admitted
confusion :-)), but it’s a misuse of the word.
And misuse of words like ‘unique’ or ‘literally’ robs the language of powers of
expression. The more we abuse the language, its vocabulary and its grammar,
the less expressive it is possible to be – without having constantly to explain
your words. And superfluous explanation is what we find people doing because
the more words we lose to abuse, the more ambiguous become those words.
That’s all I have to say about that . . . ;-)
Chris
> On 1 Mar 2015, at 14:08, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't see any problem as Nathan has phrased it. Lunch at Hilarion's house
> is unique as is the related pleasure of enjoying the meal and friends. But
> the experience is not unique since he's done it before. How would you
> rephrase it to separate those things? IMHO, too much linguistic work is
> required for a minor point which caused no confusion in my mind.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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