Jessica, I got a "Bad Link" message.
Snow has stopped in DC.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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Jessica, I got a "Bad Link" message.
Snow has stopped in DC.
Trudy, I would probably have responded to the snow like the little kids. Also, completely without connection, you were in my thoughts a lot last week, what with all the family hardships. You're back home now, right?
meara, I guess we're talking about the same documentary.
How come it's "more rare"? Is it because "rarer" looks like somebody didn't know what letters to use and just put "r"s in all the places they could think of?
Hil! Congratulations on the internship!
Thanks!
I'm fairly certain that "rarer" is OK.
I can't think that "meeting the person" is up to statistics alone
I don't believe anything's up to statistics. A one in a million chance means it does happen.
"Rarer" is okay, but a pain in the ass to pronounce -- I suspect that's why people tend to use "more rare". Which is also awfully R-ish, now that I look at it, and yet still not as bad.
Thanks, Nilly. Yes, I'm finally home. My Mother is still with her sister and will be spending an extra day there due to the weather which is good -- now that the hub-bub has died down its really sinking in for them that their Mother is gone. I keep alternating between being sad about my Grandmother and then remembering that Mimi is gone too. (Oh, "Mimi" is short for Miriam. My Grandmother and her siblings were David, Paul, John, Ruth, Miriam and Esther).
The reason it is "more rare" as opposed to "rarer" is that English is random and weird.
Sad to not be able to see Jessica's pictures.
I would love to post some more, but I have to run.
Have great rest-of-the-weekend, everybody!
well, most adjectives can be parsed that way: fast, faster, fastest. Rare can be, too: rare, rarer, rarest.
I think maybe I just prefer "more rare" because "rarer" sounds weird. Like "rar"
It might just be the midwest accent thing, though.
Y'all cannot post so much on a Sunday. It makes me think it's Monday, and then I panic. Also, I need an extra day of weekend.