Safire: "... You cannot say 'more *woman*'; ..."

[Wilson Gray]

in today's NYT Mag, "... you would have to say 'more womanly.'"

"I'm more man than you will ever be and _more woman_ than you will ever get!"

Spoken by Antonio Vargas's character in the 1976 film, _Carwash_.

In a similar syntactic vein, Bo Diddley specified himself as being
"500% _more man_ / [and] can lay more pipe than a plumber can" back in
1965.

Of course,,  this could be merely one of those black things or,
perhaps, I'm missing Safire's point.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                                      -Sam'l Clemens

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