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		Zacharias030 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chines... ok but Germans also use not bad as their highest praise and are from the west etc.

gsf_emergency_6 10 days ago [–]

All these languages!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes#Dutch_and_German

Well, except American, I suppose

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