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I don't think it's possible for something to be the 'most unique'.

• teach 12y ago
  I used to be similarly pedantic with English. But a few years ago I converted to descriptivism[0], and I've been much happier ever since. :) [0] http://english.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/prescriptivism-and-descriptivism/ http://english.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/prescriptivism-and-d...
• Confusion 12y ago
  Not in a single metric. But you can formalize what is meant: there are many metrics in which something can be unique. Something is deemed the 'most unique' when it is unique in so many metrics that the utterer estimates no thing is likely to be unique in more metrics. Even mathematicians use sloppy language.