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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Can "more better" be correct?

I had a squabble with my GF over this. The other day at lunch, she asked if, having eaten, I felt better then I did prior to eating. I said, "Yes and I will feel more better after digesting and resting." She said "more better" was ALWAYS wrong, and I argued that in this case it was correct because it actually was what I was trying to say, with "more" modifying "better", as opposed to the common incorrect usage where "more better" is used as a phrase modifying a noun, as in, "Ice cream is more better than ice." Am I wrong or was my usage correct? (I know it would have been preferable to say "even better" or "better still" or something, but I am curious how people respond to this one. Thanks!

=David
  

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"more better" is not correct. I'll feel even better after... , I'll feel better yet.

— BarbaraPA

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"more better" is not correct.

I'll feel even better after...

Or After I..., I'll feel better yet.
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Hi,
I once read something about "more better" or something like that. I remember reading that it is used, it's not "incorrect", descriptively speaking. That is, some native speakers in some situations actually use structures like "more better". It is obviously not accepted in formal English and probably in many varieties of English, but...
I'll try to find out someting about that on the n
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Not correct, IMO, but they can be seen accidentally joined in sentences as this one by the director of the BBC:

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The aim was to try to, I mean I started off trying to say look what we
needed was more better programming, we've, that takes a number of
factors.

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More and better are both comparatives. It's impossible - even in English with all its wild exceptions - to have a comparative like more qualify another comparative, better.

CB
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KooyeenHi,
I once read something about "more better" or something like that. I remember reading that it is used, it's not "incorrect", descriptively speaking. That is, some native speakers in some situations actually use structures like "more better". It is obviously not accepted in formal English and probably in many varieties of English, but...
I'll try to find
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Marius HancuThe aim was to try to, I mean I started off trying to say look what we
needed was more better programming, we've, that takes a number of
factors.
Marius, that is the incoherent ramblings of a man on a chatshow that keeps changing direction mid-sentence. Nevertheless, with a hyphen added it does seem to make some sense: "
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I understand and agree, at this point I am really just playing devil's advocate. If "even better" is fine, why is "more better" wrong in this case? "even" and "more" mean exactly the same thing in this construction and are begin used exactly the same way - as in "I fell 10% better now and I will feel 20% better later." I understand about a double comparitive, but I also think it is the meaning tha
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YankeeDon't go overboard with your descriptiveness. Emotion: wink "More better" (as a comparative) is frowned on even in
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Wow, I found it.
But it is a book, "The American Language" by H.L. Mencken, written in 1921. That wasn't real American English, I mean, in 1921 they didn't even say "Dude", how could that be American English?
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The American vulgate boldly employs more better.

That's still non-standard.
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