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Perhaps the top surface is even more slippery, because it really has the apple ...

... with its fresh dew drops, mentioned by Afzaal.

Maybe it's deliberate to be able to sell new computers/insurances/repairs?

What's the difference between "slipperiest" and "most slipperiest"?

Tautology methinks.

WiganLatics wrote:
Tautology methinks.

Clive James opined in the Guardian recently that any post including the word 'methinks' should be consigned to outer darkness as it is alsmost certainly nonsense. I think you just proved him right.

For the record the major authorities on grammar (OED, for example) now pretty much agree that a double superlative (or a comparative superlative or a qualified unqualifiable such as 'very unique) is a meaningful concept adding a sufficiently distinct nuance to be free from the charge of tautology. Sorry if that's extremely impossible for you to get your head round.

I always had a problem with the inability to qualify absolutes - could never get the English teacher at school to agree that if there were only 2 of a thing, it was almost unique.

You are throwing around plenty of words, but this 'meaningful concept' is still meaningless without a hard example of where it is valid.

It is legitimate to say 'One of the slipperiest surfaces' or 'One of the most slippery surfaces'. They sit perfectly between 'The slipperiest surface' and 'A [very] slippery surface'. There is no nuance that it uniquely describes. It merely adds an extra syllable with no additional meaning.

Hyperbole is the most bestest way to emphasize a point.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Theoretically if you treat the "slipperiest" as a group rather than a single item, such as "the top ten slipperiest surfaces" then it is possible to have a grammatically correct "most slipperiest" - which would probably be the number one from the aforementioned top ten. Even then "most slippery" would be better English.
[edit] ...or perhaps I should say, "The mostest, bestest Englishest".

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Try Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God which depends entirely on God being greater than the greatest possible thing. If they were doing it in the 11th Century then it's a bit late to be arguing about it now don't you think?

And as m'learned friend says, also look up hyperbole.

-|~+\|8"+|@#

12 letters, enjoy.

Hint #1: Assume that it's normal if you don't know what it is.

Solution: DISTRIBUTION
Winner: super! Smile | :)

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

modified 23-Nov-15 5:13am.

DARKWAYSTAGE

Rules for the FOSW ![^]

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

2W 1B

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

I don't know, but it's a valid Regex? Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Probably yes Dead | X|

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

A clue would be appropriate at this stage, may be?

I agree, I'll put that now Smile | :)

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

DISTRIBUTION ??

cheers,

Super

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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

We have a winner!! Jig | [Dance]

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

I just solved because of the clue.

cheers,

Super

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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

The solution was born as an answer to the hint (which was a riddle I came out with in itself). You're sharp!

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

As a reliability Engineer, my daily job is to deal with distribution. And the word "normal" triggered "distribution" automatically in my brain

cheers,

Super

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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

I'm an Engineer too and the riddle itself was born in this way, each time someone says "It's normal" I have a Gaussian distribution in mind. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

nice, i was totally blind XD

Rules for the FOSW ![^]

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

OMG I OVERSEEN THE + AND +

Rules for the FOSW ![^]

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

Nope, super got it! Smile | :)

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy

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