Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Babooshka grammar Message-ID: <8908091632.AA16548@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 13:30:33 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: motcid!marble!meadley@uunet.UU.NET (A. Meadley) Michael Mendelsonsays: >I thought I heard Kate say > "She couldn't have made a worst move..." Yes. That is what I have always heard on "Never For Ever", too. As far as I can recall from my English lessons at school, worse compares two things ("This is the worse of the two") and worst compares three or more things ("This is the worst of the three"). So Kate is implying several (ie. three or more) options of which the one she took was the "worst". Ant in Chicago uunet!motcid!meadley