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To: koan who wrote (24330)	11/3/2006 7:09:51 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (2) of 78418

Koan, you missed my point. We can already say "very unusual" to cover that particular meaning. If we allow "unique" to degrade into meaning just "unusual", they is no word left to mean what unique used to mean, i.e. "the only". That's why "unique" originally became popular, because "singular" was similarly degraded from meaning "the only" to meaning merely "unusual" and a new word was needed. Look at the etymological roots of singular and unique -- both come from words for "one", which is why they were/are properly used to mean "the only". That's why I asked what adjective and adverb you would now use to mean "the only". Once you allow "unique" to mean "unusual" you can't use it any more to mean "the only", which by definition cannot take modifiers. Something is either "the only" or it isn't, with no shades of grey. LC

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