Timeline for Difference between ほとんど～ない, めったに～ない and まれ
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| Apr 9, 2012 at 8:52 | vote | accept | Philip Seyfi | ||
| Apr 9, 2012 at 3:15 | answer | added | Jesse Good | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 7, 2012 at 5:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJapanese/status/188500858479185921 | ||
| Apr 6, 2012 at 21:07 | history | edited | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 20:39 | comment | added | summea | @ジョン まれ will come up from time to time in written form, at least. :) | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 19:55 | comment | added | ジョン | My first instinct is that ほとんど〜ない is a little stronger (as in, describes a rarer occurrence than) めった〜ない. This is lightly backed up by this slightly unusual example sentence from the Tanaka corpus (not always a reliable source). The use of まれ seems uncommon - I'd never heard of it until this question. Anyway, this is all speculation on my part - I'm not qualified to answer this question. | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 18:55 | history | asked | Philip Seyfi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |