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Mixed English Grammar Thread


Lyzko  41 | 9580
10 Jun 2021   #181
It was common coin in Shakespeare's time to speak not only in double negations, but in double superlatives as well-:)
pawian  221 | 25151
12 Jun 2021   #182
n double superlatives

Wow,. good to know -

While I may scape,
I will preserve myself: and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape,
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast.
Lyzko  41 | 9580
12 Jun 2021   #183
...or: This, the MOST UNKINDEST cut of all. (Hamlet Act II Scene I, if memory serves me correctly).


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