'nothing usual' means unusual?

[fl]

Hello,

I read the below paragraph. The last sentence is puzzling to me. Could you
explain it to me in a simple way?


Thanks,

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However, I do think this is somewhat different. Vertex has real money in this
company in the form of zero coupon bonds. High caliber management and the
board need to be compensated or they'll take their talents elsewhere. Retail
investors and Vertex need them to be successful. Trust me, I don't usually
take this stance but there's nothing usual about InterTech.

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

It means that InterTech (whatever InterTech is) is not like the usual
run of companies that offer the same services: it is, supposedly, much
better.


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athel

[Anton Shepelev]

fl wrote a message titled:

> 'nothing usual' means unusual?

'Nothing' sometimes means emphatic negation, e.g.:
"I was nothing loth" means the speaker was all ea-
ger.

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[Hen Hanna]

Why do ppl like to use [below] in this way?
Do [native speakers] ever use [below] in this way?



> ... but there's nothing usual about InterTech.

> there's nothing usual about xxxx.

To me, this sounded odd, and Google.News search
confirmed that both of these below are much more common:

-- there's nothing ordinary about xxxx.

-- there's nothing routine about xxxx.

HH

[Daniel James]

In article <b9b5a3c5-148d-448a...@googlegroups.com>, Hen

Hanna wrote:
> > I read the below paragraph.
>
> Why do ppl like to use [below] in this way?
> Do [native speakers] ever use [below] in this way?

A native speaker would have written "I read the paragraph below" -- the
use of "below" in this sense is not unusual, but the word order is.

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Cheers,
Daniel.