Monday, November 22, 2004
::mirage::
Was just blog hopping [you know, was looking out for Singaporean blogs and see how people write] and I saw someone complaining about how irritating it is when she hears people say the words 'lesser' and 'worser' and how she thinks they don't exist in the dictionary. I, being the curious soul who has got nothing better to do [or perhaps I am just trying to prove people wrong] immediately surfed to Google and typed in the words. And yes, I got a definition for 'lesser' [meaning the word exists].
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less·er
(lsr)adj. A comparative of
little.
Smaller in amount, value, or importance, especially in a comparison between two things: chose the lesser evil.
Of a smaller size than other, similar forms: the lesser anteater. adv. A comparative of
little.
Less. Used before a participle: a lesser-known writer.
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Personally, I don't think 'worser' exists, but I was proven wrong.
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worser
\Wors"er\, a. Worse. [R.]
Thou dost deserve a worser end. --Beau. & Fl.
From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. --Bunyan.
A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. --Dryden.
Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs occasionally in the best authors, although commonly accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of lesser to sanction its issue.
``The experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance, peculiarly teaches.'' --Hallam.
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And I read in somewhere that if you wear girdles, you can actually have a slimmer waistline. How can that actually be true? Wouldn't your waist 'expand' back to it's original size after the girdle is taken off? Tried to google some answers but couldn't find any. Was watching Orange Days [a Japanese drama] with my sister just now and I noticed that old people are actually very cute. [Hmm?] Somehow they look like toddlers to me. Like they have gotten their innocence back or something. But then again, not all elderly look cute and cuddly or whatever. It must be the show.
