JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 21, 2019

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    pschearer Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Unique” is evolving into a synonym for “unusual” which can exist in degrees. When was the last time you heard anyone say “sneaked” instead of “snuck”? English evolves, or else we’d still be saying “thee” and “thou”.

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    GirlGeek Premium Member over 5 years ago

    She haunts you in your daydreams

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    jpayne4040  over 5 years ago

    Mom is always with you wherever you go!

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    sueb1863  over 5 years ago

    How can Dot be so picky about grammar and yet be so reckless and dangerous when she drives?

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    dlkrueger33  over 5 years ago

    In this case, the use of “individual” is not wrong. It is being used as a synonym for “person”. With all the horrific grammar, spelling and usage I see on Facebook, “very unique” doesn’t bother me at all. LOL.

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    jagedlo  over 5 years ago

    shouldn’t have gone there, Marcy!

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    Dani Rice  over 5 years ago

    Oh, Marcy! I do understand. My mum was also an English teacher.

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    sgs13  over 5 years ago

    I’m 70 and still channeling my grandmother, who was an English teacher!

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    DM2860  over 5 years ago

    The phrases that are starting to get to me that I only started hearing a lot recently is “Usually never” and “Usually always”. Why have people started saying this?

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    Flossie Mud Duck  over 5 years ago

    Language evolves. “Ain’t” was originally quite acceptable.

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    nanakitteh  over 5 years ago

    Try listening to what she is saying instead of how she is saying it.

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Think about a bunch of hit pop tunes that are very similar. Each song is technically “unique.” Now think of a Frank Zappa or Funkadelic song. They’re miles ahead and apart from the hit pop tunes. One could describe the Zappa and P-Funk songs as “very” unique, even if it’s not technically correct to do so.

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    B.comics.61 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Isn’t that Joe’s mom, not Marcy’s?

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    I agree on all points. Some people actually think there are degrees of being unique. If we are then lets do it for real.

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    sufamelico  over 5 years ago

    Excuse me! But “Unique” and “Individual” doesn’t those words mean the same?

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    La Gata Loca  about 4 years ago

    I’ve always maintained that if object A is unique in one attribute and object B is unique in 10 attributes that it is fair to say that B is more unique than A, OR that object C differs from others by a small margin but object D differs from others by a huge margin that D is more unique than C, but I’ve never convinced the nazis.

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