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[BigV]

What about "not unique"? Doesn't "not" modify "unique" in that phrase?

[Kingswood]

Originally Posted by BigV

What about "not unique"? Doesn't "not" modify "unique" in that phrase?

It's a yes/no absolute and that's OK. One is or isn't unique.

Now if you used a quantifier like "slightly" or "rather", it makes no sense. Something cannot be slightly unique or slightly optimum in much the same way a woman cannot be slightly pregnant.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by BigV

What about "not unique"? Doesn't "not" modify "unique" in that phrase?

Don't ask me, I hated English... except in 7th grade when Mr Brown told us about fighting a fire on the roof of a London hospital during the blitz, while his wife was giving birth downstairs, and traveling on a convoy carrying war materials to Murmansk, though U-boat infested waters with ships getting torpedoed right and left, or about writing his book, Folke Wulf. Now that was a good class.

I wish I had a copy of that book.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Don't ask me, I hated English... except in 7th grade when Mr Brown told us about fighting a fire on the roof of a London hospital during the blitz, while his wife was giving birth downstairs, and traveling on a convoy carrying war materials to Murmansk, though U-boat infested waters with ships getting torpedoed right and left, or about writing his book, Folke Wulf. Now that was a good class.

I wish I had a copy of that book.

**reviewed by** (not authored by) David Brown

Is this your guy?

Or...

**Foreword by E. M. "Winkle" Brown**

Him?

He has an extensive Wikipedia entry and has written several books, and many articles. Perhaps one referenced here is just the ticket.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by BigV

Is this your guy?

Nope, Jim Brown. He wrote it right after the war, not a technical book really, more about the Folke Wulf company than a particular model. It was in my school library but probably out of print even then('56).