Is "quite easy" easier or harder than "easy"?

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Is "quite easy" easier or harder than "easy"?

Автор -is-this-fft-, история, 4 года назад, По-английски

There have been some questions about this comment (and its parents) and it seems different people understand the expression differently. So I wanted to create a poll.

If your answer is "depends on the context", vote based on the context of that comment.

-is-this-fft-
4 года назад
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-is-this-fft-

4 года назад, # |

+502

Upvote this and downvote the other if you think "quite easy" is harder than "easy".

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ikovrigin

4 года назад, # ^ |

-27

Is it was "easy" or "quite easy" way of getting contribution? :)

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-is-this-fft-

4 года назад, # ^ |

+15

People were supposed to upvote one and downvote the other to keep the contribution balanced. But it seems many did not get the idea.

Anyway at this stage even +300 voted comments only change contribution by +1. The only way to seriously get cobtribution for me is to write rounds and tutorials.

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pritishn

4 года назад, # ^ |

+12

Then write rounds and tutorials! :)

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-is-this-fft-

4 года назад, # |

-236

Upvote this and downvote the other if you think "quite easy" is easier than "easy".

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MagicSpark

4 года назад, # ^ |

← Rev. 2 →

+19

Why both comment is upvoted?

UPD:now this comment is heavily downvoted.

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Monogon

4 года назад, # |

+32

This is quite a predicament.

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rotavirus

4 года назад, # |

-36

it depends on my left heel and gladiolus.

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WitchOfTruth

4 года назад, # |

← Rev. 2 →

+64

Quite easy is harder than easy

Excerpts from a grammar book

Quite is a degree adverb. It has two meanings depending on the word that follows it: ‘a little, moderately but not very’ and ‘very, totally or completely’:

When we use quite with a gradable adjective or adverb, it usually means ‘a little, moderately but not very’

When we use quite with a non-gradable adjective or adverb (an extreme adjective or adverb has a maximum and/or minimum, for example right – wrong), it usually means ‘very’, ‘totally’ or ‘completely’:

So "quite easy" means "it is somewhat/slightly easy".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/quite

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Venti_chai

4 года назад, # ^ |

Grammerforces

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hetp111

4 года назад, # ^ |

+86

Grammarforces*

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Venti_chai

4 года назад, # ^ |

+20

Proving my point huh?

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SecondThread

4 года назад, # ^ |

+39

*Proving my point, huh?

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pritishn

4 года назад, # ^ |

-10

Proving my point, huh?*

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pritishn

4 года назад, # ^ |

-9

Wait wait...
~~abcd~~
*

LOL! Strikethrough doesn't work on asterisk.

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Sharishaxd

4 года назад, # ^ |

Looking at the votes above, we can conclude Indians have other opinion.

Why?

they are the most frequent nation here
we already know how they give contests and solve questions

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AGRU

4 года назад, # ^ |

+51

*problems

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roshan_mehta

4 года назад, # ^ |

-14

Hey Wait, What is your last point! How they give contests? Due to some cheaters don't blame a whole country, Please! It really hearts those who are trying harder to get better!

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Golovanov399

4 года назад, # |

+21

Also, is "almost surely" more or less reliable than just "surely"?

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Golovanov399

4 года назад, # ^ |

While "almost surely" literally means "with a 100% probability", I don't know if "surely" means "always" or "I guess so". In russian, however, "almost surely" is "почти наверное", which, being translated outside of a mathematical context, turns into something like "almost maybe", which definitely sounds very doubtful

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Errichto

4 года назад, # ^ |

+26

While "almost surely" literally means "with a 100% probability"

I think that's the definition in math only.

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riadwaw

4 года назад, # ^ |

well, the problem is in "наверное" changing it's meaning from "surely" to the current one.

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cute_hater

4 года назад, # ^ |

I suppose "почти наверняка" is better translation for this

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_Enigma__

4 года назад, # ^ |

+27

It is almost surely less reliable.

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Gassa

4 года назад, # |

In the context, how about "trivial"? As in "doesn't require much insight, but still might require some tedious effort".

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-is-this-fft-

4 года назад, # ^ |

Someone already got mad when I said "quite easy", can you imagine the reaction if I had said "trivial"? xd

Anyway, while this problem doesn't need any "special" insight, it still needed just enough thinking to not be called "trivial".

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mango_lassi

4 года назад, # ^ |

I wouldn't call a tedious problem trivial. Maybe trivial to solve.

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snorkel

4 года назад, # |

It should be ez4me.

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T1duS

4 года назад, # ^ |

+25

ez4ence

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Hikarii

4 года назад, # ^ |

not so EZ4ENCE now I guess, I mean, at least they have upgraded the fIrEpOwEr

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pllk

4 года назад, # |

+46

Well, I was 100% sure that "quite easy" is more difficult than "easy" but it seems many people here understand it in a different way.

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Errichto

4 года назад, # ^ |

+55

Same. I wonder what's the distribution of answers depending on age or rating.

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Ahmadsm2005

4 года назад, # ^ |

+68

I thought quite easy means that it is very easy. Like for example: "That is quite good" meaning, that is very good. I usually replace quite with very that is how I understood that "quite easy" means "very easy". Seems like I am wrong?

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C137

4 года назад, # |

+22

It's 12:30 AM here, now I can't sleep before knowing the answer.

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snorkel

4 года назад, # |

← Rev. 2 →

+17

Would be nice to have a CP dictionary, published by CF community.

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Wild_Hamster

4 года назад, # |

+31

People can't even vote in such way that sum of contribution on 2 first comments is equal to 0. What do you really expect from that poll? Also considering that a majority of people here solve questions instead of problems, can this poll really show something?

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snorkel

4 года назад, # ^ |

Then disable CF for Indians for a week poll to be real.

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Wild_Hamster

4 года назад, # ^ |

+20

we definitely need a feature "Let downvote/upvote my comments only for people with rating from a range [L, R]"

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Ahmadsm2005

4 года назад, # ^ |

+13

everyone be like: Aright, imma set L and R to my rating of my alt account and keep spamming useless comments for free contribution.

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Um_nik

4 года назад, # ^ |

+15

You think everyone would do that? So you would do that?

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Ahmadsm2005

4 года назад, # ^ |

-29

I wouldn't waste my time for that, But the idea its self is weird.

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snorkel

4 года назад, # ^ |

-20

let L be 1321 and R 2391

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Tlatoani

4 года назад, # |

+104

Personally, I read (and use) "quite easy" as meaning easier than just "easy", and I might use it in opposition to "fairly easy". The grammar book that someone cited above is for British English, so maybe this is an area where British English and American English differ.

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hos.lyric

4 года назад, # ^ |

← Rev. 2 →

+30

+1. I thought "quite" could be replaced by "very" (with some exceptions like "quite a few"). As Japanese people usually learn American English (and little about British English, such as "centre") and so do I, I am quite shocked here.

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