MEMO

[fox]

to:  ALL ENGLISH SPEAKERS EVERYWHERE
from:  ME
re:  RAAAR

ATTENTION EVERYONE:

UNIQUE ≠ UNUSUAL.  THE WORD MEANS 'ONE OF A KIND' AND THAT IS ALL IT MEANS.

i'm sorry to raise my voice, but honestly.  this has gone on long enough.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

but the more i think about it, the more i'm okay with the expression unique ≠ unusual. unique ∈ unusual, of course, but they're not equal. unique ⊂ unusual, but ¬(unique ⊆ unusual).

just to get thoroughly geeky and formal-semantic about it. :-)

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

So what's something that's unique but not unusual, that is, unique and usual?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

as 'unique' means 'singular', there can be nothing that is both unique and common.