Re: OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It

From: Daniel Haude (haude_at_kir.physnet.uni-hamburg.de)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: 7 Jan 2005 09:19:11 GMT

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:55:32 GMT,
  Bob Stephens <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote
  in Msg. <tqyi7lv115w2.19bx188wq5bph$.dlg@40tude.net>

> Now *That* is my brother's pet peeve. Something is either unique or it
> isn't, no modifier required. I sometimes torture him by saying "effectively
> unique" or "presumably unique" just to watch the veins stick out on his
> neck :)

Recently I heard this sentence from a German advertising art director:
"Mir gefällt dieser besser. Der ist irgenddwie uniquer."

Roughly translated: I like this one better. It is somehow more unique.
With the -er appended to signify the comparative (in German, the
comparative is always formed with -er).

I would have like to kick that guy out of my office just for that sentence
(there were many more like it) if I hadn't been about to earn a handsome
sum of money from him.

--Daniel