Contender for 'Understatement of the Year'

[GT49er]

On a more general note, is there any other language that uses understatement so often to emphasise a point? I mean how when we want to describe something as worse than or better than we use words such as 'quite' or 'pretty'.

"There's been an accident. It looks quite bad"..."I enjoyed that match. It was pretty good."

I don't know - but I quite like it that our's does.