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Kamog said:
A little bit dead is when someone, say, got shot and killed but the body is mostly intact.
Someone is more dead if he got blown to pieces.
Totally dead when turned completely to dust or vaporized.
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Dead:
adj. Having lost life; no longer alive.
Dead is dead. It is a state of being. Either someone is dead or they are not. Someone who is shot is just as dead as someone who is vaporized. No definition of 'Dead' that I could find made any reference to there being different degrees of dead.
Many thanks to you guys, anyway. I think I can now go back and inform my friend that qualifying absolutes is simply bad English.
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