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Silver Alicorn posted:something I find amusing is how many English expressions are overstatement or understatement. like if you say “that’s not bad” you’re not trying to be neutral, you’re actually saying it’s pretty good. I think of examples all the time but that’s the main one that comes to mind right now there’s a meme about American idioms vs English vs Germans (iirc?) that lays out the various levels of enthusiasm where “that’s okay” is earth shattering endorsement from one but extremely negative from the other
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