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Maripinky Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

The most old fashioned or the oldest fashioned?

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0 To me it's the most old-fashioned; it's a composed adjective, but should be treated as a 3 syllabe one, hence superlative with most. 0-

— Pieanne

  • 0 To me it's the most old-fashioned; it's a composed adjective, but should be treated as a 3 syllabe one, hence superlative with most.
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0 To me it's the most old-fashioned; it's a composed adjective, but should be treated as a 3 syllabe one, hence superlative with most. 0-
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0 Yes, Pieanne, I thought so too, but why do we say "hardest-working" or best-looking", and not "most hard working" or "most good-looking? 0-
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0 Hi Maripinky, 02br
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00Oldest may be a little confusing since it can mean "chronologically old". 02br
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00Best and most do not cause such confusions. Maybe that's why the rule is written this way. 02br
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00Just my 2 cents. 0-
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0 To julielai, 02br
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00Re: "chronologically old"?? 02br
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00How about, 02br
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00a) The oldest-looking guy in town. 02br
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00b) The oldest brokering house to date. 0-
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0 Hi temico, 02br
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00Those were just my 2 cents, Temico. 02br
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00To my (not-very-good) grammatical sense: 02br
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00B is more of an age issue (oldest "brokering house"). A is about a guy who looks the oldest. 02br
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00Here "old fashioned" can be treated as a whole concept and probably that's why we
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0 BTW julielai, what can you buy with TWO CENTS in Hong Kong which I believe that you are in?? To my knowledge, a HK one-cent "legal tender" note is like a postage stamp, printed on one side only( the other side is blank). 02br
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00Also, have you ever heard of, "the oldest fashioning house/ establishment/etc." before? 0-
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0 Hi Temico, 02br
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00I'm very poor and two cents are all I've got. I haven't gone shopping in a while. Like to spare some change? 05002br
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00I googled around but found 0 hits of "oldest fashioning". And only 11 hits of fashioning house. So I'm afraid I'm no help there. 02br
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00I hope a few grammarians will jump in and
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00I thought so too, but why do we say "hardest-working" or best-looking", and not "most hard working" or "most good-looking?12blockquote
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00Some of these expressions have acquired the status of a single, fused word, a meaning of their own, independent of the two words that make them up. There are different degrees of
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0 To julielai, 02br
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00Supposing you had a lot of odds and ends and you managed to get rid of all of them but one. What would you call that remaining one? I hope it's worth your "two cents"!050010id4
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0If I have one thing left, I hope it will be my pride. 05002br
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00Cheers. 010id1
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