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291 points mooreds | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 15:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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pixelpoet ◴[18 Sep 25 16:14 UTC] No.45291451[source]▶
> one of the only

That reminds me, I still have to put up the explanation at oneoftheonly.com for why this phrase doesn't make sense and is the new "could care less".

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idreyn ◴[18 Sep 25 16:16 UTC] No.45291488[source]▶
I would like a non-native speaker to weigh in, but I gloss it as "there are ONLY a few and this is ONE OF them" and have never found that confusing or contradictory.
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1. em-bee ◴[18 Sep 25 16:42 UTC] No.45291834[source]▶
as a nonnative fluent speaker, to me "one of the few" and "one of the only" mean the same thing, with "of the only" possibly being even less than "of the few"