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Mark
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People...  Posted: 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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Francine
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:32 pm |
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Mark wrote: Why is it that more fun seems to be more acceptable than funner? I dunno. Me no gots great grammer... 
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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: 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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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:52 pm |
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It scorched
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And funeral. Respect for the dead made them discard funner as a word.
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Monk
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:58 pm |
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:16 pm |
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Lot o' poor man got the Cumberland Blues, he can't win for losing.
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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: 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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Mark
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:16 pm |
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... and Dave Tripper too, I thought.
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Mark
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: 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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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 12:01 am |
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Mark wrote: ... and Dave Tripper too, I thought. And Dave Tripper, definitely. Good catch, Mark.
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Mark
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: 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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Brotoro
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:57 pm |
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I blame the French.
Not for this. Just in general.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: 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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Mark
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:34 pm |
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Another member of the Grammar Police? Attachment: splitinfinitives.jpg
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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:12 am |
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Emissary to the Prophets
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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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James C. Taylor
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:06 am |
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a k a LightningMan, lover of bountiful pulchritude
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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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Beachy
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:59 am |
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Mr. IMWANKO
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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:39 am |
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Emissary to the Prophets
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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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Uncle Twitchy
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Post subject: Hey Grammar People... Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:34 am |
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