"all the faster" (in Latin too)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:58 AM -0700 6/29/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"That's almost the loudest she can sing."
>
>It wouldn't be difficult for utterances of this sort to be
>transformed by young children and/or non-native speakers into
>"...all the loudest...."  Substitute the comparative degree and
>_voila_!
>
>I'm not claiming that this actually happened, mind you, but it seems
>like a real possibility.
>
>Or it did till I tried to summon up some Google exx. by using the
>likely phrase "That's all the biggest it...."  No hits whatsoever.
>Nor for "That's all the fastest it..."
>
>So "all the + adj. (superlative degree)" would seem to be imaginary
>so far as Internet users are concerned.
>
>Sorry.
>
>JL
>
If you try it without the "that's", you'll pick up a couple...

www.dreamband.net/chat/ forum/read.php?TID=194&page=3
all the biggest it can be is 75 x 75 pixels

www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3539
If all the volume sliders are all the way up then thats all the
loudest it gets.

Larry