Timeline for What does "I like girls just fine" mean?
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| May 14, 2011 at 14:51 | comment | added | Luke Sneeringer | Can't complain, if it helps the OP. :) | |
| May 12, 2011 at 21:23 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Luke: Are you ok with those examples? | |
| May 12, 2011 at 21:22 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 12, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | Luke Sneeringer | Now, someone help the OP out by coming up with an example. I'm still suck (and none of the other examples I've read seem correct). | |
| May 12, 2011 at 20:54 | history | edited | Luke Sneeringer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 12, 2011 at 20:53 | comment | added | Luke Sneeringer | @FumbleFingers: Yes, after considering your comment, I agree that my universal statement is incorrect. Certainly I generally use the term to refer to the views of the person I am talking to, but I think both interpretations here are sometimes accurate. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 20:52 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 12, 2011 at 20:51 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Luke: Even though my previous comment disagreed with your Answer, I'm going to upvote it. When I look carefully at the others, it seems to me they don't take account of the word 'just'. Your word 'sufficiently' specifically does. Anyway, on reflection I think we're both right, in that 'sufficiently' could be in respect of the speaker's or the asker's requirements, dependent on context. I suspect you're coming round to that view too. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 20:35 | comment | added | Luke Sneeringer | Hmm. The point you make is valid. Probably the owner of the viewpoint being referenced is, at best, inconsistent. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 23:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Luke: I'm afraid I think exactly the opposite. To me, using just fine in this way definitely suggests the speaker is perfectly happy with the extent to which he 'likes girls'. But it often carries the subtext that the speaker doesn't much care about meeting the questioner's expectations. That's to say, there's an implication of Everything's just fine so far as I'm concerned. So stop rattling my cage. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 19:32 | history | answered | Luke Sneeringer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |