Your Posting Behaviour
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Doc said:*takes bokken and smacks Dutch Baka in the back of the head*
No.....
*proceeds to take Dutch Baka's face like it's a little dog's, and rubs it against the computer screen like he's smelling **** or something*
Doc
excuse me? please explain why this... not kind post? or do i misunderstand something? i better hope i do!!
Glenn
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- 8 Jan 2004
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"Worser" is wrong, because it is redundant. I assume you know about comparative and superlative adjectives in English. The usual rule is that you make the comparative by adding "er" to an adjective, as in "faster" or "louder," but there are some that have irregular forms, and "bad" is one of them. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad," so adding "-er" to the end of it is like forming a comparative of a comparative, which is redundant. Therefore, the heirarchy of adjective, comparative, superlative in relation to the adjective "bad" is "bad," "worse," "worst." I hope that makes sense, and answers you question about the grammar. As for the making fun of you, I can't answer that.
lexico
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- 22 Dec 2004
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Double comparatives
I think Glenn explained it quite nicely. If I might add, spoken English is rife with the supposedly no-noed practice of double comparatives (as are double negatives), and some have (I think) entered the regular vocabulary as well. *thinks-thinks* For example, "Children of a Lesser God" was a film title.
Another example of misapplied comparative/superlative is "bad-badder-baddest" as in "The Baddest Bad-*** in the West" (think that was a joke) or "bad-worse-woreset" instead of "bad-worse-worst" - I, too, but in language learning, such examples are to be found even among young native speakers, and some get to be retained even unto adulthood and old age.
I wouldn't say it was a major offense, Dutch Baka, and some people use it knowingly just to sound more casual, don't they ?
*wonders if W ever did that on purpose ?*
As for the making fun part, I think it might best be avoided even if Doc meant no great ill-will, iller-will, or illest-will.
*the bokken is kinda violent, shivers, brrrr~*
Question: How does one make the comparative/superlative of badly as in "She did badly in her audition." Is it "She did worse" or "She did worsely" ?
I think Glenn explained it quite nicely. If I might add, spoken English is rife with the supposedly no-noed practice of double comparatives (as are double negatives), and some have (I think) entered the regular vocabulary as well. *thinks-thinks* For example, "Children of a Lesser God" was a film title.
Another example of misapplied comparative/superlative is "bad-badder-baddest" as in "The Baddest Bad-*** in the West" (think that was a joke) or "bad-worse-woreset" instead of "bad-worse-worst" - I, too, but in language learning, such examples are to be found even among young native speakers, and some get to be retained even unto adulthood and old age.
I wouldn't say it was a major offense, Dutch Baka, and some people use it knowingly just to sound more casual, don't they ?
*wonders if W ever did that on purpose ?*
As for the making fun part, I think it might best be avoided even if Doc meant no great ill-will, iller-will, or illest-will.
*the bokken is kinda violent, shivers, brrrr~*
Question: How does one make the comparative/superlative of badly as in "She did badly in her audition." Is it "She did worse" or "She did worsely" ?
Doc
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lexico said:As for the making fun part, I think it might best be avoided even if Doc meant no great ill-will, iller-will, or illest-will.
*the bokken is kinda violent, shivers, brrrr~*
I was going to say big stick, but I was tired and it was 4:30 a.m where I live at that time. I was in a silly mood so no hard feelings okay guys?
Doc
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lexico said:
Another (more likely) possibility is:
Comparitive: "She totally screwed up in her audition".
Superlative: "She screwed up totally in her audition".
I posted this in jest - but linguistically - perhaps interesting .... ?
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- 28 Jul 2005
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Good Monday morning there folks !!
I voted #2, just to leave room for modesty, perhaps, or for those occasional errors which I do miss, or later catch, but am too lazy to fix. I would of course love to say that I'm number three all the way, but I just know that I'm not quite that perfect--I could be, in the final analysis, at the #2.75 mark between those two. I'm also very busy these days. And many of you know, I love all these little words, I arrange them in various orders and decorate them and....in other words, I'm a long, longer, longest, longester, longestertest writer.
Glenn did do a good job in the explanation. I would point out, that the number of syllables a word has makes the basic distinction: a one syllable word gets the 'er' 'est' suffix, a two syllable word with a 'y' ending also gets that suffix, whereas a word with two (no 'y' ending) or more syllables gets the 'more', 'most' pre-word additions. And then there are the strange ones like 'good' and 'bad' and 'farther' and 'polite' (which can be done any way you want to...)
Lexico san, how about 'She did more badly...' or 'She did much more badly...' and 'She did most badly...' and if you want more emotion, then Sensuikan San was right on. OH NO!!!! I just noticed this was starting to get a little long here....BYE !!!!
AND ONE MORE THING...no, just a joke.... I'm out of here for now...See you !!
I voted #2, just to leave room for modesty, perhaps, or for those occasional errors which I do miss, or later catch, but am too lazy to fix. I would of course love to say that I'm number three all the way, but I just know that I'm not quite that perfect--I could be, in the final analysis, at the #2.75 mark between those two. I'm also very busy these days. And many of you know, I love all these little words, I arrange them in various orders and decorate them and....in other words, I'm a long, longer, longest, longester, longestertest writer.
Glenn did do a good job in the explanation. I would point out, that the number of syllables a word has makes the basic distinction: a one syllable word gets the 'er' 'est' suffix, a two syllable word with a 'y' ending also gets that suffix, whereas a word with two (no 'y' ending) or more syllables gets the 'more', 'most' pre-word additions. And then there are the strange ones like 'good' and 'bad' and 'farther' and 'polite' (which can be done any way you want to...)
Lexico san, how about 'She did more badly...' or 'She did much more badly...' and 'She did most badly...' and if you want more emotion, then Sensuikan San was right on. OH NO!!!! I just noticed this was starting to get a little long here....BYE !!!!
AND ONE MORE THING...no, just a joke.... I'm out of here for now...See you !!
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