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Originally posted by rainmaker
Hey, Rook and Rut, here's an interesting fact. Almost no one agrees with anyone else about the meanings of the general quantity words. I saw a study where people were asked to rank about twenty quantity words -- like few, some, many, several, etc -- from biggest to smallest. and out of about 250 people, no two rankings were exactly the same. NONE. And none of the words was in the same position on every single response. So your "some" and "most" might be a lot closer together than you think. [/B]
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Juulie, very interesting bit of info, one I will file away and try to remind myself when I
sometimes find myself a
little overboard in
many of my conversations about how
little the other participant knows about the
several topics we are attempting to discuss in
great depth.
Seriously, I believe keeping in mind a study like this can facilitate better communication. I hope to keep it in mind.