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« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2007, 11:03:23 AM »
No, you say I'm taller than George.
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« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2007, 11:14:06 AM »
Wow this is brain straining.
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« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2007, 11:15:22 AM »
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No, you say I'm taller than George.
No, he says "I'm shorter than George".
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« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2007, 11:36:53 AM »
KFCed on silence.

This is important.  You would ALWAYS say you are taller than George.  Everyone is taller than a dancing chicken.
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« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2007, 11:40:02 AM »
Quote from: DaDan on June 24, 2007, 09:33:41 AM
so...

if I'm with a shorter friend in a room, I can say;

I'm the taller one here?



YES! th_ah th_ag
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« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2007, 01:44:09 PM »
the -er -est ending is normally used for exactly those situations, but they don't work if you are in this situation. If you had 3 brothers you could say "Raoul is one of my younger brothers, George is also my younger brother, but Stil is my youngest brother".

"I have 2 younger brothers and George is the elder of them."

But here you can't go young, younger youngest for this construction.

The first construction acts as if you were also counted as part of the sibling group.
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« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2007, 01:06:02 AM »
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George is also my younger brother,
Yeah, I like that!! th_ag
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« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2007, 05:46:10 AM »
Quote from: DaDan on June 24, 2007, 09:13:02 AM
I'm confused....

why does it take Three to say oldest/youngest?

I thought two was enough to be able to have a oldest of the two?

You've got two younger brothers, the youngest one is younger than the other.

Is that not correct English?


I've got two brothers younger than I am.  The older of the two is ABC and the younger one is XYZ.  They are both pains in the butt.

Comparative (-er) involves only two being compared.
Superlative (-est) involves more than two in the comparison.
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« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2007, 09:04:17 AM »
so....
the middle boy in your family is an American Born Chinese...
& the youngest needs to examine his zipper?

`that correct?
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« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2007, 10:05:33 AM »


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I've got two brothers younger than I am.  The older of the two is ABC and the younger one is XYZ.  They are both pains in the butt.

Comparative (-er) involves only two being compared.
Superlative (-est) involves more than two in the comparison.
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well put eagle....simple and to the point.
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« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2007, 10:48:32 AM »
the only difference is that it was just made complicated by the shared 4 letters and made difference by the first letter.  th_bi isnt that complicated too?

well, english is arbitrary..
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