"all the faster'

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

"Is this all the faster this Model T will go?" --- This may represent (at least to some extent) a syntactic blend, from:

"Is this all the speed this Model T will get?" and:
"Can't this Model T go faster?"

I mention this just as a suggestion. If the construction is in fact a blend, it's not one of the clear, unambiguous type.

Gerald Cohen

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> From:         American Dialect Society on behalf of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent:         Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:04 AM
> Subject:           "all the faster'
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> 1935 Doyle Laird & Wallace Smith _Bordertown_ (film) : Is this all the faster this Model T will go?
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> In other words, "as fast as."
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> How would one describe or account for the underlying grammar here ?  Is there a syntactician in the house ?  (Goak.)
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> JL
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