• voracitude@lemmy.world
    8·
    18 hours ago

    This is very, very quite similar to the British use of “quite” to mean “extremely”.

    Did you see him shit his pants while he was exercising? Quite disconcerting, I must say.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        1·
        12 hours ago

        The use of litotes is common in English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Dutch, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, French, Czech and Slovak, and is prevalent in some other languages and dialects. It is a feature of Old English poetry and of the Icelandic sagas and is a means of much stoical restraint.

        So not ALL languages? TIL