"Reports that a cyclist is in a very critical state. My sympathies are with the individual but FFS how can you be very critical? "
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I believe his point is that the word critical shouldn’t be subject to gradation. Either they’re critical or they’re not, they can’t be very critical or slightly critical or mediumly critical.
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"I believe his point is that the word critical shouldn’t be subject to gradation. Either they’re critical or they’re not, they can’t be very critical or slightly critical or mediumly critical.
Not entirely sure it’s worth starting a forum thread over, though."
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"Reports that a cyclist is in a very critical state. My sympathies are with the individual but FFS how can you be very critical?
Presumably they have life threatening injuries "
Doubtless, but critical is critical. You can't be very critical, incredibly critical, a little critical...a journalist should be better than this |
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"I believe his point is that the word critical shouldn’t be subject to gradation. Either they’re critical or they’re not, they can’t be very critical or slightly critical or mediumly critical.
Not entirely sure it’s worth starting a forum thread over, though.
But worth a comment?"
Always! Sorry OP was just teasing, no dig intended  |
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"I believe his point is that the word critical shouldn’t be subject to gradation. Either they’re critical or they’re not, they can’t be very critical or slightly critical or mediumly critical.
Not entirely sure it’s worth starting a forum thread over, though.
But worth a comment?
Always! Sorry OP was just teasing, no dig intended "
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"What if they had written ‘ever so critical’ or ‘super critical’ or ‘hyper-mega critical’ ?
I read that in the voice of a camp older guy “Oo ee was ever so critical you know”"
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"What if they had written ‘ever so critical’ or ‘super critical’ or ‘hyper-mega critical’ ?
Critical is critical! You might as well say something is incredibly dead! "
Your last sentence reminded me of the scene in Alice in Wonderland when she is talking to the Mad Hatter.
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