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Towlie

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6. "Fully half" is an oxymoron.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sun Dec 31, 2017, 08:56 AM

Dec 2017

I think its usage shows that the speaker would have preferred to say "most" but the statistics didn't quite support that, and he wanted to subtly preserve the compelling rhetoric that the word would have had.

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An interesting point to ponder isn't it dembotoz Dec 2017 #5

it has a name Mosby Dec 2017 #14

"Fully half" is an oxymoron. Towlie Dec 2017 #6

Another great Doonesbury strip Gothmog Dec 2017 #16