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> For his part, Buckleitner thinks this is too neat of an explanation. 'too neat an explanation'. 'neat' is an adjective, so there's no call for 'of' here. It'
by leoc 7y ago
> For his part, Buckleitner thinks this is too neat of an explanation.
'too neat an explanation'. 'neat' is an adjective, so there's no call for 'of' here. It's bad enough when people get this wrong in speech ...
- triangleman 7y agohttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of-a-problem-vs-how-big-a-problem https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of...
- leoc 7y agoThe dictionary.com quotation proves my point. TFA is neither spoken nor informal English, it's trying to be broadsheet-quality written journalism. In that sort of context, using dodgy colloquialisms sounds real dumb like.