UpcountryGecko said:
SuperMse said:
I am so sorry to do this, but I thought I'd bring this up seeing as this is the thread title. There cannot be varying degrees of uniqueness. Unique: Being completely of its own, without equal or comparison. Incorrect example: It was the most unique shirt in the store. Correct example: It was a unique shirt.
Look it up in Elements of Style.
Are you suggesting that a sheep that blows up isn't unique?
No, I am suggesting that it cannot be more unique or less unique than anything else, because unique implies that something is completely different from everything else. There is only unique, not more unique and not less unique. Its just proper grammar.
Incorrect: The exploding sheep is more unique than the gravity gun.
Correct: The exploding sheep is unique.
EDIT- Think of it in the way that unique can be used interchangably with "in a class of its own." Something cannot be more in a class of its own or less in a class of its own- it is just in a class of its own.