Now I told you it was way more expensive than I really needed.
Grammar Nazi
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Heard recently in TV commercial: "...with the Sleep Number Bed, get a deeper and sounder sleep...". I don't believe that the advertising people who wrote this commercial were unaware; what really bothers me is that I suspect that the temptation to out-of-the-blue create words which seem to sound better in a specific context (sneaking in sounder instead of using the phrase more soundly because the word deeper was already chosen) is perceived desirable to the public. I just don't like that kind of thinking.
...you grown coarse swine hair on your palms-right before being struck blind...
dammit, you made me look at my palms again!!!
Just make sure that if it lasts over four hours there's an ER near you which has a wide doorway.
...and I'll need a bathtub the size of an Olympic Pool....
Well, at least you'd never need bedrails.
I always thought "sounder" was a word?
Sound, sounder, soundest. Kind of odd-sounding, I admit.
Or do you mean, if I get a sound sleep, it can't get more sound? Like something can't get more perfect?
It does sound strange to say, "Two nights ago I got a sound sleep, and last night's was even sounder."
Now the word "sound" is starting to sound soundly like a non-word in my head...
There it is! Ooh, I'm afraid to ask where you found it......oh pshaw!...rhinestones aren't THAT pricey!....
You know, you're right, sounder is proper. When I looked up the definition I missed the second one. Thanx! I still don't like the sound of it, though.
Nor do I. Let's agree to never use it again.
I was messin with the noise thingamajig trying to find the sounder upper and got electromacuted.
Agreed! I feel much better now! We'll be the Sounderlesses. Or the Sounderlessi.
Ooh, I like the Sounderlessi. I have always liked to make those "i" plurals from words that end in "us."
One fungus, two fungi. One octopus, two octopi. I even like to use it for words that don't follow that rule: hippopotami, abaci, citri, circi, and my favorite, walri.