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Tokumei-no-hito
329 days ago
nit-nit, what's wrong with cheap prices? price doesnt infer magnitude.
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abcd_f
329 days ago
Cheap means "low in price". Price can't be "low in price", it can be just "low".
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gnabgib
328 days ago
Cheap has many more meanings than that. It can mean comparatively inexpensive (a cheap Lamborghini), of inferior quality (cheap paperclip), miserly (he's too cheap to buy better), gained with little effort (cheap win).
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FabHK
328 days ago
So what's a cheap price? A price of inferior quality? A miserly price? A price obtained with little effort? Or is after all a low price what's meant?
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abcd_f
328 days ago
Sure. Still doesn't make "cheap price" a valid combo.
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lame-lexem
327 days ago
could be a contraction of cheap at the price
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cheap_at_the_price
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