Comments on: Moreso

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:07:13 +0000

“What about its opposite construction, “less so”? Are we now to glop these together into “lesso”? Soon we’ll be facing “inorderto” and “inspiteof,” not to mention “nottomention.” Welcome to Mars. Somebody hand me that flask.”

GASP! Imagine, a living language evolving. Now imagine if we were all still stuck with Old English…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:19:57 +0000

Haha, this is perfect. You make a very good point. Things like “alot” are not used by writers, but those who do not care. “Moreso” is something that was really thought over before written. The respondent sounds like one of those people who still try to get away with “to-day” and finds books from the 20s to have the most “proper” English.

By: DemonBorne

DemonBorne — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:08:49 +0000

Your definition of the phrase “more so” encompasses too much as the suboordinating conjunction “than” is external to the meaning you presuppose. Whatevs.

By: Geem

Geem — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:00:01 +0000

Oh, I hadn’t noticed the “furthermore” and “inasmuch” at the heading here…but still, I think “whatsoever” could be the closest link to “bad back-formation.”

By: Geem

Geem — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:57:18 +0000

Just for a thought…I wonder if its “use” or misuse might be vaguely linked to the word “whatsoever”? Since that’s pretty familiar and correct, people may be doing “moreso” by a sort of back-formation (is that spelled right, hyphen, one word, two words?)

I guess I think that because I’m an “English major person” and I’ve often been a bit iffy about “moreso”…so I guess my theory here is really my own thought process.

By: occams_blazer

occams_blazer — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:51:36 +0000

You…you do realize that they didn’t speak English two millenia ago, right? If you were being facetious, I applaud.

But if you’re looking to a series of collected creative works written by farmers and tribesmen in the bronze age and then translated innumerable times as a source of linguistic insight for modern English words…BOOM. Egg on your screen.

By: m.pease831

m.pease831 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:41:34 +0000

Plus! Moreso is in the Bible; aka the best selling book ever written. BOOM. Get with the program, you’re about two millennia behind.

By: m.pease831

m.pease831 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:38:48 +0000

In my opinion, this contraction is simply the evolution of language, and not an abomination to English. Trying to conserve what some woild call “proper academic English” would merely inhibit the progression of communication. If someone says a word to me in dialogue, and I understand the meaning of it, then that is to be considered effective communication. It seems to me, but its only a hunch, that the point of language is to provide a common medium for for communication. The attempts at conserving traditional academic English are the real abominations. They only limit creativity and expression. Plus, where would we be in language NEVER evolved? We wouldnt be talking, that’s where we’d be…

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:07:13 +0000

My favorite response!!!

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:56:12 +0000

> Soon we’ll be facing “inorderto”

How shocking! I expect that sooner or later, somebody will dare to contract a phrase like “be the cause” into the equally ugly “because”.

Or “per cent” into the utterly insane “percent”. Or contract “to-day” into “today”.

And then where would we be, eh? I quite agree: this disturbing trend must be nipped in the bud before chaos ensues every… where.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:09:55 +0000

“Tell ‘em they’re wro- er, non-standard; if they don’t care or honestly prefer it that way they can keep on doing it, if they didn’t realise it was non-standard they can fix it. Any kind of evolution needs some kind of selection pressure to keep it in check…”

Awesome. I’m gonna practice saying “non-standard” in my Boris Karloff accent.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:09:55 +0000

Awesome. I’m gonna practice saying “non-standard” in my Boris Karloff accent.