> > Any other "creative" uses of the English language that drive any of you people up a wall? I know there are; let's hear some of them...
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> I know, I know, this makes two self-replies to my own message...but as I said, I could rant for days about this. [And besides, I talk to myself all the time anyway, so is it all that different? :)]
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> Anyway, I heard an example of another of my linguistic pet peeves not long ago: double comparatives and superlatives. For example, "That's the most dumbest thing I've heard!" (when only "dumbest" is needed), or "This shirt's more prettier than that one" (instead of just "prettier")...
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> -- codeman"and that's still not the most worst of it"38

There was a radio commercial that ran a couple weeks ago for a local business that included just such a phrase. I wasn't sure if everyone involved with writing and recording of it were just not smart enough to catch it, or if it was somehow intentional. It wasn't stressed in any way which would lead me to believe that it was not intentional. I could never listen to the rest of the commercial because I'd get stuck there, replaying it in my head, cursing at the radio at how stupid they are. I will never give that business my patronage due to my grammatical pettiness. Unfortunately, since I never listened to the rest of the commercial, I don't know who it is that I'm boycotting.

Tra "I's more better then that" nio

(yes, I intentionally used "then")