Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Question for any amateur philologists out there....

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Found this... guess the word I was looking for was Superlative:
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/compsupl.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlative

Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> I found this site and am very excited: http://bookbox.com/index.php
>
> Except I have one hesitation in that their tagline is "Helping 
> children read smarter".
>
> I don't believe "smarter" may be used as an adverb.  I'm looking at 
> suppletion on wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion
> but I'm not finding anything illuminating.  Is this not grammatical 
> topic for "Good, Better, Best" ?  I had thought growing up that we 
> were taught that they were called "Super latatives" or something 
> similar, but I'm finding nothing on searches for that.
>
> I've also always wondered about Apple's tagline "Think Different".  It 
> irks me as it seems in my mind that it's incorrect and should be 
> "Think Differently".  Any ideas on this?
>
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>
> At the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And 
> Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we teach you that there's more 
> to life than being really, really good looking.
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