I can't stand it when people use the phrase "very unique" when they really mean "very unusual". Unique means "one of a kind" and therefore cannot take a modifier like very.
I was just listening to NPR and a teacher, a teacher for Christ's sake, talked about her "very unique students" who had gone to Iraq. A teacher!
Someone should wash her mouth out with soap, talking to students like that.
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Me too!
On a somewhat random linguistic note, this goes with the story of the grammar teacher telling the class about double negatives:
Teacher: 2 negatives make a positive, but 2 positives do not make a negative.
Student: Yeah, right.
>;-)
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