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only a sinner saved by grace ([personal profile] owl) wrote in [personal profile] girlyswot 2008-10-25 10:35 am (UTC)

I would consider quite=completely to be archaic, which would fit in with American (and to a lesser extent, Hiberno-) English using it that way.

Actually, I use it more as an intensifier when I'm agreeing with something ("Oh, quite." or "Quite correct.") than when I'm making a statement of my own.

Ah, the pitfalls of an unwary right-pondian attempting to write fanfiction in an American canon! Although I think we have the advantage over the Americans trying to do the opposite.

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