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Originally Posted by M56 Thanks for the links, xmode. What do you think of this?
In which situation would you, personally, use number one over number two?
1. This is as much unnecessary as it is undesirable.
2. This is as unnecessary as it is undesirable. |
To me, number 1 is for emphasis. You have stronger feelings about something with that statement. Number 1 could be heard as having more emotion attached to it. That's the way it seems to go often. Choices are often made based on emphasis and relative degrees of formality and informality. There are other things I guess, but those seem to come up quite often.
The speaker may or may not be aware that he or she is making these choices. It depends.