On 2012年01月25日, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, why i am not surprised! Let's pick one usage at random and > try to understand it. "I think XYZ is pretty easy." You don't > even need "pretty" to get your point across. You could simply > say "I think XYZ is easy". Furthermore, if you insist on > QUANTIFYING a QUANTIFIER, simply use any number of legal > QUANTIFIERS. "I think XYZ is VERY easy" or "I think XYZ is > SOMEWHAT easy" or "I think XYZ is difficult". I remind you of http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit -- Neil Cerutti