Weird comparative now fit to print

[Laurence Horn]

I don't know what these are called, but note the headline of this
piece in today's Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/sports/baseball/22yankees.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

And in case you think it's a typo (for "Later Rather Than Sooner"
perhaps), the inside page headline in the hard copy is

Chamberlain Will Start,
But Later Than Sooner.

).  These comparatives must have a name (which Arnold no doubt
knows); in any case they're impossible for me, but evidently not for
everyone.
LH

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