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“Perfectly fine” does not mean perfect, it means it’s usable. And it’s not like the parent commenter doesn’t agree that an app is useful.
by mynameisvlad 3y ago
“Perfectly fine” does not mean perfect, it means it’s usable. And it’s not like the parent commenter doesn’t agree that an app is useful.
- yreg 3y ago'Perfectly fine' definitely doesn't mean 'usable' in my dictionary. But I see that perhaps the parent didn't mean to say that the web version can do everything the app does, so I have edited my comment to be less confrontational. Thanks.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoRight. OP here, FWIW, in my colloquial English (right or wrong:) "Perfect" is, well, perfect; does everything I want and cannot be meaningfully improved. "Perfectly Fine" on the other hand, the key word is "fine". It is "eh. It mostly does the job. I cannot begrudge it too much. I have bigger things to rant about. It's perfectly fine." "Fine" is like "Nice". It's fine. It's nice. Note quite "Good", let alone "Amazing". But it's fine. Perfectly so :) (I empathize with all of your pain points, particularly the stopping of generation if my screen locks. I have employer-mandated iPhone which has draconian locking policies which are pretty close to average time of query generation. I wonder if app will have the same issue?)
- yreg 3y agoSo 'fine' is better than 'perfectly fine'? (I’m not a native speaker.)
- scarface74 3y agoPerfectly fine means good enough
- bigfudge 3y agoNo, but perfect is much better than perfectly fine.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoYep, this is also my interpretation of the phrase. I best equated it to "usable" since I agree it's "not quite good".