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‘More optimal' is oxymoronic; ‘better’ is just that.

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• kibwen 3y ago
  From 1983: Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum". https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1.html#SECTION00010000000000000000 https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1....
  • eynsham 3y ago
    Even worse! ‘Optimum’ in English is a noun, not an adjective.
    • kibwen 3y ago
      From 1993: Verbing weirds language. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
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• swader999 3y ago
  I prefer "more betterer".
  • paulddraper 3y ago
    And the superlative, most betterest.