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> each one more inaccessible than the next. This is a little off topic, but: I've always been curious about this rendering of this idea. If each thing is more
by wcarss 5y ago
> each one more inaccessible than the next.
This is a little off topic, but: I've always been curious about this rendering of this idea. If each thing is more _____ than the next, then the first thing is the most _____ in the set. It's not particularly impressive, really! You just have an ordered set and you saw the exemplar first.
Conversely, "each more _____ than the last" implies that wherever you started, it's just going to keep getting more and more _____. That's surprising! It's a new discovery each time.
...do I have this wrong? Does anyone have an explanation for why some people prefer 'than the next'?
- ocfnash 5y agoI interpret this as a simple thinko, not unlike the expression "I could care less". As Al Yankovic says: 'Like "I could care less", That means you do care, At least a little'
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoDavid Mitchell did a longer piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
- dmurray 5y agoI read "next" as referring to the adjacent example, not the temporally later one. So "each one more ___ than its neighbour". Of course, it's impossible mathematically for each element to be bigger than all its neighbours, for N > 1, but it's OK as a figure of speech.