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« Reply #50 on: October 08, 2008, 12:17:22 PM »


Steve Jobs, you wound me.
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« Reply #51 on: October 08, 2008, 12:24:40 PM »
I happen to thing "iPod" (and the subsequent i-Ification of other things) is a worse offense than "funnest".

"Funnest" just sounds like an 8 year old.
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« Reply #52 on: October 08, 2008, 12:25:09 PM »
You think it's just funner, but not funnest?

(I don't think that there's anything wrong with funner nor funnest.)
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« Reply #53 on: October 08, 2008, 12:25:58 PM »
Fun, more fun, most fun. NOT fun, funner, funnest. Bleh!
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« Reply #54 on: October 08, 2008, 12:31:43 PM »
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You think it's just funner, but not funnest?

(I don't think that there's anything wrong with funner nor funnest.)
Yep.  Freakin' superlatives.  There are going to be way funner iPods in The Future.

But seriously, yeah, "funner" and "funnest" are like nails on a chalk board for me.

So is the practice of pronouncing "hundred" as "hunnert'".  These are related to each other only in  that the people that I've known that use the word "funnest" are likely to pronounce the word "hundred" in that way.
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« Reply #55 on: October 08, 2008, 12:36:37 PM »
Fun, more fun, most fun OR fun, funner, funnest!
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« Reply #56 on: October 08, 2008, 12:36:50 PM »
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That's the retardest thing I've ever read.

Nor heard.
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« Reply #57 on: October 08, 2008, 12:43:33 PM »
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Fun, more fun, most fun OR fun, funner, funnest!
You are even more wrong on this that about gun control. :P
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« Reply #58 on: October 08, 2008, 12:58:57 PM »
That may very well be true.

But if so, it means something far different than what you think. :P
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« Reply #59 on: October 08, 2008, 01:55:21 PM »
Obligatory link providing actual facts.

In short: it's a pretty sharp generational divide. If you hate the inflected forms, it probably just means you're old (or old at heart).  :P  
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« Reply #60 on: October 08, 2008, 02:20:44 PM »
I'm never gonna grow up!
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« Reply #61 on: October 08, 2008, 02:32:12 PM »
<-- old fogie for years now

And get off my lawn!

(Also, I just noticed your sig.  :lol: )
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« Reply #62 on: October 08, 2008, 02:34:13 PM »
She said that a couple of weeks ago in response to something one of our kids said.

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Care Bear gets upset if I tell her to get her shoes and socks on when she already has socks on.  
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« Reply #63 on: October 08, 2008, 02:36:16 PM »
Not yours (although it's funny too). Appleboy's.
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« Reply #64 on: October 08, 2008, 02:38:19 PM »
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« Reply #65 on: October 08, 2008, 04:40:38 PM »
*pat pat*
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