PRETTY PRETTY (2 pretties???)

She's going to find pictures which I don't find too / quite / rather pretty.

Good luck!

AnonymousShe's going to find pictures which I don't find too / quite / rather pretty.

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With the negative "which I don't find," all of these are unnatural (as is "pretty.") Well, perhaps "too" could work.

I suggest "very."

"... pictures that I don't find very pretty."

As a style issue, avoid using "pretty" as a qualifier w

What I'm trying to say is:

Pictures she's going to find pretty, I don't find pretty. That's what the original sentence means maybe?

Thank you

I have no idea what the original is supposed to mean.

But with "pretty pretty" in the negative, it's not natural and it's not good style.

alc24Pictures she's going to find pretty, I don't find pretty.

That's how I took it. I agree with the other posters that "pretty pretty" is awkward and should be avoided.

alc24That's what the original sentence means maybe?

I have to wonder how it is you could ask what a sentence means that you wrote. You do write your o

So, you mean "She's going to consider certain pictures to be pretty, but I won't consider the same pictures to be pretty"? Something close to "She's going to like pictures that I don't like."

If that's what you mean, you need to make it much more clear than the original sentence does. Most of us thought the original sentence meant "She's going to locate pictures that I don't consider v

Well, at least after reading through the thread, I finally figured out Alex's syntax:

She's going to find [pictures that I don't find pretty] pretty.

Actually, I can imagine someone saying that, but meaning would certainly depend heavily on tone and stress!

Yes that is what I mean, thank you Mister Micawber

Ah! I can't say that meaning ever occurred to me. Well done, Mr. M.

That's what I was trying to get at in my post, but Mr. M. said it much better!