"Five features that the iPod Nano needs _over_ a camera"

[victor steinbok]

Perhaps, like a fish, it needs a bicycle.

Perhaps it was a space consideration. Or just economy of words: "over"
is shorter than "more than". Still, you should be so over this... ;-)

VS-)

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In order to understand WTF this headline was supposed to mean, I had
> to read the article. But, after I'd read it, I realized that I've
> heard - and used - _over_ in this kind of construction as long as I've
> been able to talk. I'm not sure why seeing it in print was such a
> problem.
>
> If there be others to whom the meaning is not immediately clear, it's
>
> "... needs _more than it needs_ a camera"
>
> or suchlike.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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