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From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Grammar: False comparsion Why?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:56:00 -0800
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Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com> wrote:
>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.
I would say "small pizzas" rather than "small pizza", which implies one
particular pizza pie.
--
Jack Hamilton
jfh@acm.org
And he who rejoices at the destruction of human life
is not fit to be entrusted with power in the world.
Lao-tzu
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