Re: Easiliest (was: Jovian's Verbs From Hell)
From: | Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> |
Date: | Saturday, August 31, 2002, 19:49 |
--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:
> Easiliest? Is that really an English word?
According to whom? According to Webster, no. It's
probably in some dialect or other...
> It reminds me of a sentence in the fantasy series
> "Neverwhere", in which Mr.
> Vandemar says: "I will hurt you badly, and then I
> will kill you even badlier!"
English is an amazingly pliant language this way. When
the Prescriptivists are held at bay, anyway!
> Jan
Padraic.
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il dunar-li c' argeont ayn politig;
celist il pozponer le mbutheor ayn backun gras.
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