Chipping away at -er comparatives?

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:11 PM, W Brewer wrote:

> AW:  <<And isn't the tendency for shorter (1-syllable) adjs to take the
> suffixes, but the longer ones to take ... more/most?>>
> WB:  Taiwanese EFL interlanguage typically combine the synthetic &
> analytic:  <more crazier>. Hawai'ian pidgin, too:  <Hey, bra'! Do it da
> kine mo' betta!>

but watch out for those Mo' Better Blues…

LH

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