2010/4/12 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: > > There's no improper English in the construction.
John, Very much appreciate your encouragement. Quantitatively "more unobtrusive" appears to be less with 44.500 Google results for "more unobtrusive" and 126.000 for "less obtrusive". However, I find "more unobtrusive" is very commonly used, even in online dictionaries. It just doesn't smack me as logical with due respect to the meaning of word plus modifier which in my perception makes it an absolute which may but need not have an opposite. I would guess even among linguists the jury is still out... so perhaps we should all just let it rest or turn it into something fun =) Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
