English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

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Slowtwitch wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 9:36pm My pet hate is 'turning milder', milder than tropical storms or winter gales!? It's the most vanilla statement a weather forecaster can use
I'd prefer them not to make any calls about "better" or "worse" or "more pleasant". Short of disasters they don't know what I'd like.

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Cowsham wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:32pm... new mutation may actually be a blessing in the sky.
Isn't that delightful? I wonder if it's R value is > 1.

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thirdcrank wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:39pm
....Take this example for instance ....
Do you have a view on tautology?
No but I do of smart r'ses
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Jdsk wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:48pm
Cowsham wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:32pm... new mutation may actually be a blessing in the sky.
Isn't that delightful? I wonder if it's R value is > 1.

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This week's lesson is Matthew 7:1
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mattheus wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:28pm Only MIckF would find this difficult to understand. To almost the entire Anglosphere, a sentence like:
"It's warmer than yesterday." is impossible to misunderstand. Likewise
"...,milder ..." or
"... drier ..."
Yet somehow MickF can write a pile of drivel about it ...
Not drivel at all!

It can be drier or warmer or milder than yesterday. No argument from me there! :D

Take the sentence:
It is freezing cold this morning, but it will be warmer by lunctime.

Comparative Adjectives and Superlatives.
Cold, colder, coldest
Warm, warmer, warmest.

Go the other way?
Cold, less cold, not cold. Maybe then mild, and milder, then perhaps warm, then warmer.

You cannot go from cold to warmer.
You can go from cold to warm.
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Mick F wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 2:41pm
mattheus wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:28pm Only MIckF would find this difficult to understand. To almost the entire Anglosphere, a sentence like:
"It's warmer than yesterday." is impossible to misunderstand. Likewise
"...,milder ..." or
"... drier ..."
Yet somehow MickF can write a pile of drivel about it ...
Not drivel at all!

It can be drier or warmer or milder than yesterday. No argument from me there!
Take the sentence:
It is freezing cold this morning, but it will be warmer by lunctime.

Comparative Adjectives and Superlatives.
Cold, colder, coldest
Warm, warmer, warmest.

Go the other way?
Cold, less cold, not cold. Maybe then mild, and milder, then perhaps warm, then warmer.
This reads to me as simply a repetition.

Any thoughts about what was posted in response... ?
Is -273 °C colder than 1,000 °C?
The answer, of course is that the comparative form is used in two different ways: the same property but more or less of it, and for position along a scale, regardless of the initial position.
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Mick F wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 2:41pmTake the sentence:
It is freezing cold this morning, but it will be warmer by lunctime.
Are you suggesting that this is appropriate or inappropriate use of warmer?

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thirdcrank wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:39pm
....Take this example for instance ....
Do you have a view on tautology?
I've always thought that it was unnecessarily redundant.
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thirdcrank wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 12:54pm This week's lesson is Matthew 7:1
It's a good message, but I also like Matthew 5:37
https://youtu.be/Qx_GDCOdtjw
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"do ya know wot I mean"

Notice the lack of capital letter or the question mark.

This "phrase" is inserted into sentences without thought or question. Usually hear it on the radio when someone is being interviewed, but we never hear it locally or from anyone we know. It must be a regional thing.
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Mick F wrote: 30 Nov 2021, 5:49pm "do ya know wot I mean"

Notice the lack of capital letter or the question mark.

This "phrase" is inserted into sentences without thought or question. Usually hear it on the radio when someone is being interviewed, but we never hear it locally or from anyone we know. It must be a regional thing.
How can you hear the absence of a capital letter?

Or the spelling of what?

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Yes, it's a clear difference.

Wot: https://youtu.be/_pqC563bX_w

What: https://youtu.be/w9wOsAidTrk

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The word "compliant" being used for everything even suspension or frames on bikes.
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"I wish to make a compliant..."
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