• @HarbingerOfTomb
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    266 months ago

    ‘Two of a kind’ means a pair that are just alike. It does not speak to the commonality of the item or persons.

  • @[email protected]
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    166 months ago

    I’ve not heard two of a kind used like that, but it’s interesting to hear ‘of a kind’ scales logarithmically.

  • Pandantic [they/them]
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    146 months ago

    I thought “two of a kind” meant that they were the same. Like you and your friend are two of a kind, liking the same things, having similar personalities, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        The saying “two of a kind” is saying that the similarity of the pairing pairings are uncommon enough to stand out from a random pairing.

        But at the core it is a comparison of similarities, not about frequency. One of a kind just means there isn’t anything similar.