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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:48:45 +0000
Subject: Re: as bad as
From: HenHa...@dev.null (HenHanna)
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by: HenHanna - Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:48 UTC

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> On Friday, December 17, 2021 at 1:04:50 AM UTC-5, arthurvv vart wrote:

>> 1) As bad as that piece of news is, I have even worse news for you.
>> 2) As bad as that piece of news is, I have some good news for you.
>>
>> Are both of the above grammatical and meaningful?
>> Are both idiomatic?

> (1) is, (2) is very strange.

-------------- more common without the first [As] ???

>> I read the first part to mean: although that piece of news is bad.
>>
>> I think '1' is more natural, but '2' seems to be OK too.
>>
>> 3) Although that piece of news is bad, I have some good news for you.
>>
>> I think that makes sense.

> To cheer someone up. (2) seems to compare the badness of (a) with
> the goodness of (b).

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