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To: Dale Baker who wrote (66941)5/20/2008 9:04:34 AM
From: epicure  Respond to of 543632
 
You know- I see that "more" loud thing- but then on the other hand, I hear funner and funnest all the time, and it drives me crazy. It is coming from our informal speaking- and it bleeds over in to writing. Oh well. These are already in the dictionary as nonstandard informals- pretty soon they will be accepted.



To: Dale Baker who wrote (66941)5/20/2008 9:06:06 AM
From: Suma  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 543632
 
Last night I became aware of a word that I had never heard used.. CURIOUSER.. I didn't think a word like that existed but it does. Have you ever heard it used ?



To: Dale Baker who wrote (66941)5/20/2008 3:03:10 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543632
 
>>Number two is the death of the comparative adjective. When I hear even the BBC saying something is "more loud than before" I just give up.<<

Dale -

Oh, that is sad.

I mourn the lowly adverb, as well. For some reason, people are just to lazy to add "ly" when it's called for.

- Allen