Timeline for Is "am einmaligsten" a valid superlative
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| May 11, 2018 at 18:41 | comment | added | Ray | @Graipher The Duden allows "Pizzas" too since some time, so I - just personally - don't put too much trust into that "truth". ;D | |
| May 11, 2018 at 14:41 | comment | added | Oliv | In my language we commonly say "most optimal solution", "a bigger half", "more unique product". In math it's a nonsense, in but in common speech it makes perfect sense. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 11:14 | comment | added | Graipher | @Wilson German has a (semi-)official source of truth, though, the Duden. Unlike with English, there is no such thing as that person's German. Words that are in common use may be added, but grammatical rules are not so easily changed. The Duden even contains rules that appear in dialects which might be ungrammatical in High German. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 8:54 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | Everyone makes mistakes when they speak. So whoever wrote "Der einmaligste Kuchen" might just have been distracted or tired. The only way to know if it's grammatical in that person's German is to go and ask, "what do you think of this sentence? Is it grammatical?" Then s/he might say yes, and might say no. But that's still only one grammaticality judgement, one person's opinion. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 6:29 | vote | accept | Matthias Burger | ||
| May 11, 2018 at 6:23 | history | answered | Kilian Foth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |