"Dan" <DELETEMEdan_slaughter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Is "extremely capable" a conflict of terms? I think it is. Capable means,
>at least to me, fully able. I don't think one can be more than full. What
>about "exceedingly able?"
Both phrases are OK with me, but "extremely capable" sounds like
something I'd hear in marketing material.
Jack Hamilton
jfh@acm.org
-----
Though in a state of society some must have greater
luxuries and comforts than others, yet all should have
the necessities of life; and if the poor cannot exist,
in vain may the rich look for happiness or prosperity.
The legistlature is never so well employed as when they
look to the interests of those who are at a distance
from them in the ranks of society. It is their duty
to do so; religion calls for it; humanity calls for it;
and if there are hearts who are not awake to either of
those feelings, their own interests would dictate it.
Sir Lloyd Kenyon, Rex vs. Rusby, 1800
|
|