| | :*I would say that at least three of the citations (Gould 1923, Glasgow Herald 1936 and 1947) are using the phrase in an allegorical sense rather than referring to the original events directly. The phrase has taken on a meaning beyond its historical origins. [[User:Spinningspark|<font style="background:#FFF090;color:#00C000">'''Sp<font style="background:#FFF0A0;color:#80C000">in<font style="color:#C08000">ni</font></font><font style="color:#C00000">ng</font></font><font style="color:#2820F0">Spark'''</font>]] 13:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC) | | :*I would say that at least three of the citations (Gould 1923, Glasgow Herald 1936 and 1947) are using the phrase in an allegorical sense rather than referring to the original events directly. The phrase has taken on a meaning beyond its historical origins. [[User:Spinningspark|<font style="background:#FFF090;color:#00C000">'''Sp<font style="background:#FFF0A0;color:#80C000">in<font style="color:#C08000">ni</font></font><font style="color:#C00000">ng</font></font><font style="color:#2820F0">Spark'''</font>]] 13:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC) |
| | Rfd-redundant: "So much: ''Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets''" redundant to "{{non-gloss definition|intensifier}}".<span class="Unicode">​—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 17:56, 31 August 2010 (UTC) | | Rfd-redundant: "So much: ''Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets''" redundant to "{{non-gloss definition|intensifier}}".<span class="Unicode">​—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 17:56, 31 August 2010 (UTC) |
| | :'''Keep'''. It does seem to be an intensifying adverb, but it doesn't have the same gloss (ie, not "wholly" or "exclusively"). The gloss "so much" seems to work when "all" is followed by non-determiner "the" and a comparative. Though "all the" is often followed by comparatives "more", "better", "worse", "harder", there are at least 70 other comparatives the follow at COCA. Of course, some instances are of determiner all, not adverb all, but it seems that all of the comparatives appear sometimes where the "so much" gloss is the best. | | :'''Keep'''. It does seem to be an intensifying adverb, but it doesn't have the same gloss (ie, not "wholly" or "exclusively"). The gloss "so much" seems to work when "all" is followed by non-determiner "the" and a comparative. Though "all the" is often followed by comparatives "more", "better", "worse", "harder", there are at least 70 other comparatives the follow at COCA. Of course, some instances are of determiner all, not adverb all, but it seems that all of the comparatives appear sometimes where the "so much" gloss is the best. |
| | :I'm not sure what the best gloss is when followed by non-determiner "that" and an adverb or adjective. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 19:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC) | | :I'm not sure what the best gloss is when followed by non-determiner "that" and an adverb or adjective. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 19:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC) |
