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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:19 pm 
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Why is it that more fun seems to be more acceptable than funner?

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 Post subject: Hey Grammar People...
PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:32 pm 
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Why is it that more fun seems to be more acceptable than funner?



I dunno. Me no gots great grammer... :o

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:48 pm 
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There are a number of adjectives in the English language that, for one reason or another, did not wind up falling into that convenient "-er" comparative form. Usually it's a question of what "sounds right", which is about as subjective as you can get...but I don't know why the comparative form of "funny" is "funnier" and the comparative form of "fun" is "more fun".

Unless I just answered my own question. Were folks trying to avoid confusing "funnier" and "funner" by taking one of them out of the game?

(Man, I love words.)


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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:52 pm 
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And funeral. Respect for the dead made them discard funner as a word.

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:58 pm 
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Should I just change the title of this thread to "Hey Frank..."?

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:16 pm 
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:33 pm 
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Monk wrote:
Should I just change the title of this thread to "Hey Frank..."?


No. Jay and Twitchy and Beach and Biffa and Mrs Peel know just as much as I do about the subject, as far as I can tell.

And Darragh trumps the lot of us. Put together.


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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:16 pm 
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... and Dave Tripper too, I thought.

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:16 pm 
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The bit about trying to avoid confusion between funnier and funner makes sense though. That works for me.

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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 12:01 am 
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... and Dave Tripper too, I thought.


And Dave Tripper, definitely. Good catch, Mark.


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 Post subject: Hey Grammar People...
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:58 pm 
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Why do people NOT understand the -gue concept? I read words like ROUGE (a color) being used in place of ROGUE (a person that mischievously outside the norms of society), or INTRUIGE (not a word) in place of INTRIGUE (arousing the interest or a secret scheme).

The purpose of -GUE is so that we can get the hard g sound instead of the soft g (which sounds like the j sound). That's all.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:46 pm 
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At one time, our ancestors probably pronounced it "gooey." But every conversation started sounding like a Monty Python skit, so it's just hard "g" sound now.

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Nah. General Lane is a dick who has recently come back from the dead.

Unlike the rest of Grammar Squad.


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Frank L. Sisko wrote:
Monk wrote:
Should I just change the title of this thread to "Hey Frank..."?

No. Jay and Twitchy and Beach and Biffa and Mrs Peel know just as much as I do about the subject, as far as I can tell.

And Darragh trumps the lot of us. Put together.

That he does. I am disappointed that I was not included, however.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:59 am 
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James surely belonged on the list before me. I'm Poopyhead 927 of the
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:39 am 
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This is true. Just an oversight, Mr. Taylor. After all, you're the one who gave me a Grammar Squad badge.

All apologies.


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