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@Malcolm_Ocean when you get back to Twitter, I think you showed me that chart? Do you know where to find it?
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NotRivalVoices
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Ok girls - what does a girl mean when she says a guy is too nice?
(1) version of not you its me, meant to save ego
(2) codeword for boring
(3) she self loathes
which one??? something else???
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Jessica
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Apparently I'm not like other women so can not give opinion.
BUT you know when someone says "oh, you're too kind" when someone makes a compliment, that one means "fuck off"
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NotRivalVoices
@nosilverv
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WAIT WHAT THAT MEANS FUCK OFF WHAT ELSE DONT I KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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Do you know the difference British / American use of the word "quite"?
In the US, "quite good" = "very good"
AFAIK, in the UK, "quite good" = "slightly good" or "not good at all, I'm speaking sarcastically but trying to sound polite I guess"
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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See also "Damning with faint praise":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_w…
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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At one point there was an amazing chart of evaluative words & phrases like "bad" "good" "okay" "pretty good" "not bad" "excellent" "fantastic" etc
and which ones people from different countries were most likely to use, and what they meant on a scale relative to each other
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Jessica
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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Yes! This is one of them, and then there was another with multiple countries...
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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Americans spoke with a kind of grade inflation -- "fantastic!!" or "excellent!" for anything like 8/10 or above
While the highest praise from Russians might be "Not bad"
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Malcolm 🙃cean
@Malcolm_Ocean
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This is the main one I'm aware of but it didn't have country data at *all*, so it's at best... "quite good".
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…
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Sarah McManus
@SarahAMcManus
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Yes!!! That's the one!
Forgot that it didn't have countries, and still - seeing the spread and relative placement of each is useful
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