@Intrepid,
Intrepid wrote:
Sorry, but I do not feel that I received a full answer.
By the way... what do you consider a religious nut?
I don't want to correct you... but, as a writer
you should realize that it would be more expensive.
Not, expensiver.
Obviously, u r right, Richard, qua grammar n paradigmatic usage,
but let me add this:
sometimes, in a playful spirit with friends, I use words as toys,
kidding around, just for fun.
One of my tenants, a liberal whose ability to reason I respect
and with whom I have enjoyed argument for many years,
is an English professor, with a doctorate in English,
and I have impishly entertained us by poking fun at some
of the practices of grammar.
David