a grammar error

JtH · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:48 pm Post subject: a grammar error

ha i just noticed that if you click filter, one of the options says

"are responding more quickly than"

shouldnt it be responding quicker.

i just think that its funny.

Jack
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OSU Snipe Shocker · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject:

tsk tsk tsk...Say it with me now, "More Quicker Than"?????? That sounds right to you???

oy *swoon*

I'm no gammar policeman, but come on now. "More Quickly Than" is correct, sorry man.
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`RaphX · Registered User Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Posts: 1556

"are responding more quickly than"
"are responding quicker than"

I'd stick with the first one. I'm sure there's some reason that I took in at school without realising it.
Your an idiot

Hamese · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 10:08 am Post subject:

Saying "quicker than" is a slang english term. You would have to say "faster than" to cut out the word more.

So in other words, "more quickly than" is correct.

There is no such word as funner.... it would be more fun.
There is no such word as littler...... it would be smaller.
But do not say more big because it would be bigger.
etc. etc.

Tis conbludes ar englis lessin fer twoday

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JtH · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 1:39 pm Post subject:

ok maybe i am an idiot but i still think it should be "quicker than"
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Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

How about saying : "Are responding with a ping lower than XXX ms."?
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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:39 am Post subject:

Hehehe, I spent a little over a year as a copy editor for a newspaper, I'm surprised I never noticed how awkward that sentence fragment is. It's my opinion that it would be best said like Borg's suggestion... something like "Filter by servers that responded in less than XXX ms" That'd probably be about the best way of saying it... but then again, that's why I'm not a copy editor anymore

SpeCies · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject:

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