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From: Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com>
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Subject: Re: Grammar: False comparsion Why?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:57:59 -0800
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In article <36u36mF53b361U1@individual.net>,
"Knoppix User" <knoppix2OO4@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Someone told me, it is a false comparsion, unless I'm comparing her to a
> small pizza!
>
> Sentence is:
> I like small pizza better then you.
>
> I was trying to compare of what she likes and what I like.
"I like small pizza more than you do."
* Add "do".
* "Than", not "then".
* "More", not "better."
The way you have it written, it implies "I like small pizza more than I
like you."
The "do" refers to the action of liking the pizza, and implies "I like
small pizza more than you like small pizza."
We like things "more" or "less" than other things, or more/less than
other people like them. While you might think small pizza *IS* better
than eggplant ice cream, you like it *MORE*. To like something better
than someone else does implies that their like-ing is faulty, or somehow
not as good as yours. You golf better than I do, but you like pizza
more than I do.
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