Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.
> > 
> >   Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?

> It's a pretty common idiom, if nothing else. "Almost perfect" and "almost 
> unique" (and "most unique") are common as well, and they're all "incorrect" 
> also.

  I don't have a problem with "almost perfect" because it clearly means
"close to perfect", but "almost exactly" somehow just doesn't work. You
don't say "close to exactly". It either is exactly something, or it isn't,
You don't get close to "exactly". :)

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                                                          - Warp

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