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| | : It seems to be used with adjectives that are classified as uncomparable, including, for example, ''[http://www.google.com.au/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22completely+actual%22&num=100 completely actual]''. Is this another sense - perhaps something like {{term|unquestionably|lang=en}} or maybe '''''in all respects'''''? Does it show that these adjectives can in fact be comparable, if to a limited extent? Or are we to say that all these usages are in error? — [[User:Pingku|Pingku]]<sup><i>[[User talk:Pingku|dimmi]]</i></sup> 05:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC) | | : It seems to be used with adjectives that are classified as uncomparable, including, for example, ''[http://www.google.com.au/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22completely+actual%22&num=100 completely actual]''. Is this another sense - perhaps something like {{term|unquestionably|lang=en}} or maybe '''''in all respects'''''? Does it show that these adjectives can in fact be comparable, if to a limited extent? Or are we to say that all these usages are in error? — [[User:Pingku|Pingku]]<sup><i>[[User talk:Pingku|dimmi]]</i></sup> 05:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC) |
| | ::Adjectives and adverbs can be attestably gradable while not attestably comparable, like ''actual''. If something is gradable, however, it increases the odds that it will turn out to be used comparably as well, in my experience. In fact, [http://www.google.com.au/search?num=100&hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22more+actual+than%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= this search] suggests that ''actual'' is comparable in some senses. This is not the first or last time that our characterization of an adjective's comparability seems inaccurate. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 06:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC) | | ::Adjectives and adverbs can be attestably gradable while not attestably comparable, like ''actual''. If something is gradable, however, it increases the odds that it will turn out to be used comparably as well, in my experience. In fact, [http://www.google.com.au/search?num=100&hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22more+actual+than%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= this search] suggests that ''actual'' is comparable in some senses. This is not the first or last time that our characterization of an adjective's comparability seems inaccurate. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 06:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC) |
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| | + | :Resolved, it seems. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 03:55, 31 January 2012 (UTC) |
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| | == <s>[[without predjudice]]</s> == | | == <s>[[without predjudice]]</s> == |
