[etni] Re: FWD: comparative adjectives

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>Sorry, but I have to differ with you on this.  I guess it depends where you
>are in North America.  Though it looks strange in writing, it doesn't sound
>the least bit odd to me and I spent the first 23 years of my life in North
>America (mainly in New York).
>

Well, New York! Maybe that explains it.
Isn't that where they drink 'a cup of kwafee'?
Maybe it works on the **streets** of NY, but I still say it is 'slum 
English' and indicates one's level of education. Would you ever hear it on 
the (local) news (TV, radio), for example?
Maybe we're just 'snobbisher' than they are in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Gary/Gershon
Calgary, Canada

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