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Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........



On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:22:15PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> Better presupposes good. If something doesn't approach good, e.g.
> someone misses the target by 10 metres are they "better" than the person
> who missed by 20 metres? Or "less worse". To call the 10 miss "better"
> is a version of newspeak.

Surely the correct term, rather than "less worse" would be "less bad"?

Cheers,
Tom

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they give them "just one more reason" to stay in and study every night.

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