I really like this, Bill. Thought this was sent last night. Didn't press
send : )
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:55 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> ‘Actually quite reasonable’
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> suggests surprisingly good
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> Reasonable quality however just makes it to acceptable
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> A reasonable return is good value
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> But if ‘reasonable’ is the response to ‘What’s it like?’
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> who wouldn’t think Iffy, then.
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>
> Reasonable as epithet is not particularly subject to reason it seems
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> connoting perhaps ‘fair’
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> but even there,
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> fair as in medium quality, unremarkable?
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> Or just as in ‘fair and reasonable’?
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>
> A shade or two less than considerable
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> Well ahead of negligible
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> Reasonable so damned
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> Adequate
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>
> bw
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