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| From | CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? |
| Date | 2016-01-03 14:09 -0500 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
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On 03/01/2016 10:47 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> Richard Tobin said:
>> Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Worse ever" occurs in "This winter is worse ever than before".
>> That's not a construction I've heard.
> Nor I.
Ditto, but I've been thinking about the colloquial use of "never" as an
emphatic negative ("you stole my football this morning!" "I never
did!"), and the limited use of "ever" as an emphatic positive ("This
winter is worse than before." Is it ever!"). The semantic transfer is
obvious.
Perhaps there are uses in some kinds of speech that convey simple emphasis.
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"Worse ever" or "worst ever"? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-01-02 11:31 -0600
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-02 18:40 +0100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-02 18:55 -0500
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-03 14:29 +0100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-03 14:37 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 07:36 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-03 16:47 +0100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-03 12:28 -0500
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 16:26 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 21:27 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-01-03 05:56 -0500
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2016-01-03 13:16 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-03 16:47 +0100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 14:09 -0500
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 13:38 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 14:13 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 14:29 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 14:44 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:08 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-04 17:13 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-05 10:17 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-05 12:39 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 14:17 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 23:20 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 15:52 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 19:48 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-05 16:47 +1100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-05 12:37 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-04 09:50 +1100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 14:59 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 19:34 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 01:40 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 04:25 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 23:22 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-04 11:01 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-04 07:32 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 14:24 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 15:53 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 16:11 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-05 16:55 +1100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 04:54 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 04:57 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-05 07:27 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-05 07:25 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 08:22 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-05 15:55 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-05 21:16 -0700
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-06 11:15 -0700
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:11 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-04 08:11 +0100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:13 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 23:26 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 16:30 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-05 23:53 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2016-01-06 00:31 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-06 14:15 +1100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-06 12:19 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-06 23:09 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-07 00:08 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-06 00:38 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-06 13:20 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 08:40 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2016-01-06 19:16 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 11:31 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2016-01-06 20:28 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 13:20 -0800
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-06 19:31 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-06 00:44 +0000
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-06 14:12 +1100
Re: "Worse ever" or "worst ever"? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-06 03:12 -0700
"Worse thread ever" or "worst thread ever"? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-01-07 21:32 -0600
Re: "Worse thread ever" or "worst thread ever"? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-07 21:07 -0700
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