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Re: word usage (was Re: aw_world_object_password SDK call?) (General Discussion)
Re: word usage (was Re: aw_world_object_password SDK call?) // General Discussion
Aug 11, 2002, 11:30pm
mmmhmmm you should be talking
[View Quote]"eep" <eepNOSPAM at tnlc.com> wrote in message
news:3D56D7A2.559468C4 at tnlc.com...
> Look, twit, why even bother responding in the first place if you're just
going to be a snotty snob about it? Get over yourself already and lose the
attitude, twit.
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> kit wrote:
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was simply stating the obvious which is backed up by Oxford and Fowler
(current by the way) which supports your original premise ya ning nong. That
is
survival. Learn to read for context Eep.
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the 16th and 17th centuries, and don't expect some 12-year-old interview to
support your argument. Take a basic English grammar class and get a clue.
"Worst" is more extreme than "worse"; and there is no "worser" or "worsest"
late 15c.: e.g. Chang'd to a worser shape thou canst not be-Shakespeare,
1633; For I, e'en I, the bondsman of a worser man was made-W. Morris, 1887;
people oh Lord Are sinful and sad Prenatally biassed Grow worser born
bad-Stevie
word is still about right: 'The word was common in the 16th and 17th c. as a
partly a literary survival (especially in phrases like the worser part,
sort,
the following examples: Your poor dear wife as you uses worser nor a
dog-Dickens,
worse to worser-Interview (US), 1990.
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