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Originally Posted by SPuL
actually idiot, if you look it says "Adjective -er, est" are you blind too? I mean, from your wardrobe style you could make a strong case about it.
and rofl wait so I provide you a DICTIONARY entry, and you provide me google? ROFL
wait, don't tell me... for your bibliography for any research papers you write, you count wikipedia as a source right? LOL
... well, that's if you actually took college serious.
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YOU FUCKING IDIOT IM STUDYIG TO BECOME A CHEF SINCE 2 MONTHS NOW WITH PERFECT GRADES
IVE SAID THIS 20 TIMES
HOLY SHIT
IM DOING BETTER IN COLLEGE THEN YOU ARE
THEY WANNA RECOMEND MY FOR MY STAGE AT ONE OF THE BETTER RESTAURANTS IN MONTREAL
holy shit I barely ever let people online ever get to me but you did right now, i've had to tell you this like 5o fucking times and you cant accept im in college and doing fucking amazing
DUDE, I dropped out one college that I didnt like cuz it was bull and went into a better one, it's like switching programs, I take it really serious, I worked as a cook for two years. Jesus christ man, you dont fucking listen
DICTIONARY.com is a fucking dumb site
STUPIDER is not proper english son. Damn.
Stupider is like common sense that it aint proper english. And yea I gave you google cuz go look, you'll get 200+ references proving my point if you actually stopped being stuck up and listened to someone for once damn
Ther are many words in the dictionary that I would avoid. "Stupider" is one of them. Just pronouncing it is awkward.
You, however, are RIGHT on target. The preferred way of expressing this idea is "more stupid."
"The Heath Handbook" has a list of the preferred comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. The handbook's rule of thumb is that, if a word is one syllable, use "er" and "est," as in "tall, taller, and tallest."
But . . . "Many adjectives of two syllables and all longer adjectives form the comparative and superlative by adding "more" and "most."
Examples: alert more alert most alert
ambitious more ambitious most ambitious
I suppose your friend would choose "alerter" and "alertest," but he would be in a "peculiar" minority.
Have him try to pronounce "ambitiouser" and "ambitiousest."
You are permitted to chuckle as he struggles.