Than

[Jonathan Lighter]

It means if you mark it on a student paper, the student will bitch about it till you're forced to admit he was right all along..

JL



"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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What does 'grammatical' mean?

dInIs



>>Does anyone find this sentence grammatical?
>>
>>1) She's the one than whom I am better.
>
>I guess I would call it grammatical although I wouldn't particularly
>recommend it.
>
>[But then I'm one than whose most persons' grammar is better.]
>
>-- Doug Wilson


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