is the british art of understatement ever so slightly dying out? /

Published at 2017-11-13 15:15:14

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Gradable adverbs such as ‘rather’,‘quite and ‘awfully’ are disappearing from our speech, according to linguistics professor Paul Baker. Is it a frightful shame – or are we just getting better at saying what we mean?Name: understatement.
Age: not all that novel.
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Source: guardian.co.uk

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