Conversation started Jul 29, 2015 at 22:53.
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 22:53
@snailboat My answer is correct. If not, per SE rules, change it to your liking. Your use of the subjunctive mood in your comment is rude. — User1 2 hours ago
Anonymous
Maybe it would have been better if I'd said "Regardless of whether your answer is correct,"
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Probably. To me, it didn't make any real different, but that's just me.
Anonymous
Well, the answer displays a misunderstanding of the full well vs fully well issue, as well as a lack of research.
Anonymous
So I'm not uncomfortable characterizing the answer as mistaken.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
nods
books.google.com/ngrams/…
knows this fully well doesn't even appear on the chart!
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 22:58
There's a very good reason for that. :-)
Anonymous
According to this answer, which says that full well is mainly spoken and colloquial, the reason should be that most of the books in Google Books are mainly transcriptions of colloquial speech.
Anonymous
And that Google Books doesn't really contain formal writing.
Anonymous
But this is not, in fact, the case . . .
Anonymous
Full well is in fact a relatively formal collocation, and fully well is a hypercorrection
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Anonymous
It is not "dialectal, slangy, or [ . . . ] informal"
 
Conversation ended Jul 29, 2015 at 23:02.