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by buran77 548 days ago
> when someone says "quite" with a slightly sarcastic tone

The sarcastic tone is the secret sauce which makes the difference with a lot of words, including qualifiers like "quite". Try applying a sarcastic tone to "definitely" in the Earth is "definitely" flat and you'll see how people react.
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Izkata 548 days ago
Teacher: "There's plenty of languages where two negatives will negate each other and create a positive, but no languages where two positives will make a negative."

Student, sarcastic tone: "Yeah, right."

(I have no idea where I got this from, read it online ages ago)

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