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Grammar Police was Re: coolant overflow res.



"relatively unique" is just poor english, the grammar is right, the words
are correctly spelled, just imporperly used.
Unique is Unique, a single item not found anywhere else in the world. (IE:
tower of pisa in italy)
but you could use "relatively rare", which would emphasise the meaning of
rare "hard to find",by using it in a context of describing an item that was
mass produced (over 50K cars where made over 15 years of production (not
really a rare occurence in itself by definition), puttin both together would
approximate the "rareness" of the scirocco's (as a whole) currently
available in North america.
But that is just my 2 cents frenchman opinion.

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[ 1985 8v Prowler Orange Kamei X1 Roc ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Collins
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:56 AM
To: jdbubb@ix.netcom.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: Grammar Police was Re: coolant overflow res.



By its very definition, something that is "unique" is just that
- it can't be "very unique" (a VERY abused term in the media,
who should know better), "relatively unique", etc. If something
is unique, it's one of a kind, period.

I prefer a simple "bitchen" (which is probably misspelled!)


-kc-


>--- Original Message ---
>From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
>To: Kevin Collins <kcollins1@socal.rr.com>
>Date: 1/11/02 7:51:38 AM
>

>Maybe as head of the GP you could suggest a grammatically correct
>alternative.
>Personally, I think if are going to take on the task of GP for
the list,
>it'll be a full time job!
>Hope the rest of your day is better.
>Dan
>
>Kevin Collins wrote:
>>
>> Dan Bubb wrote:
>>
>> > The good news about Sciroccos is, although they are relatively
unique
>>
>> Grammar police!
>>
>> Impossible to be "relatively unique"!
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Collins
>> Huntington Beach, CA
>> '86.5 16V 2.0
>> '00 Passat GLS 1.8T
>>
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