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Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius  From a linguistic standpoint neither answer is appropriate. The meaning of both words in this sentence would be synonymous with "very". By substituting very in place of the words you can see that this sentence would fall outside the conventions of English regardless of locale. |
You are ignoring - perhaps because you don't know - a possible meaning of 'quite'. It has nothing to do with 'very', but means 'by a long way/easily/far and away'.
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