The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38316 Message #544231
Posted By: Steve Parkes
07-Sep-01 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: Litotes in song
Subject: RE: Litotes in song
No, no, no!!! Don't forget, there must be an element of deliberate understatement: "not a little" instead of "a lot", for example. I'm beginning to see why my old English master Eric Foers used to get so worked up!