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Thursday 22 August 2019

Perfectly good: a rant.

Why is it that when in English someone describes something as perfectly good they mean it's only adequate and completely undesirable?

I mean, why????



Sometimes I think I'll never get the hang of this speaking English thing...

Words To Use Today: perfectly good. Perfect comes from the Latin word perfectus, from perficere, to perform, from per, through, and facere to do. The Old English form of good was gōd.




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