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MrNovice

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Is this actually a true word? I hear it being thrown around a lot, the meaning of fair as in "Tom and Gary made a "fair" deal, where Tom and Gary both found it to be "fair".

But "fairer"? Doesn't that kinda imply that the original deal that used to be considered "fair" is no longer fair? So one of the parties involved no longer believes the deal to be fair, even though that same deal was earlier deemed "fair" by both parties?

I can't see how a deal made and agreed upon then becomes "unfair" once completed. I guess if it was an ongoing deal then it could become unbalanced and need to be corrected but not made "fairer". It seems like once something is established as fair, then later someone wants to change it to make it more "fairer", then someone is going to get screwed and it wouldn't be "fair" any longer because something once agreed on is being pushed by one side to get more.

So if a "fair" deal needs to be made "fairer", then the original deal is no longer deemed and agreed upon as "fair" so there is (in theory) no way to make something "fairer" that is not now "fair" anyways...?

Does that make sense to anyone else??? This "fairer" thing makes no sense to me...
 
adverb, fairer, fairest.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fairer


Yes, it's a word...

References in classic literature
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There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought.
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The young man regarded the last speaker in open admiration, and even permitted her fairer, though certainly not more beautiful companion, to proceed unattended, while he sedulously opened the way himself for the passage of her who has been called Cora.
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It seemed as if the whole fortune or failure of her shop might depend on the display of a different set of articles, or substituting a fairer apple for one which appeared to be specked.
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If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne's.
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Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her; and so they were married in her mistress' great parlor, and her mistress herself adorned the bride's beautiful hair with orange-blossoms, and threw over it the bridal veil, which certainly could scarce have rested on a fairer head; and there was no lack of white gloves, and cake and wine,--of admiring guests to praise the bride's beauty, and her mistress' indulgence and liberality.
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One was a little fairer than the other, but otherwise they were exact duplicates.
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The fairer maiden said, "I would My life were as the stream; So peaceful, and so smooth and still, So pleasant and serene.
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Elinor, who foresaw a fairer opening for the point she had in view, in such a party as this was likely to be, more at liberty among themselves under the tranquil and well-bred direction of Lady Middleton than when her husband united them together in one noisy purpose, immediately accepted the invitation; Margaret, with her mother's permission, was equally compliant, and Marianne, though always unwilling to join any of their parties, was persuaded by her mother, who could not bear to have her seclude herself from any chance of amusement, to go likewise.
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Externals have a great effect on the young: I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils.
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Vanstone, at an earlier period of life, had depended solely on her native English charms of complexion and freshness, she must have long since lost the last relics of her fairer self.
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These things she had from her mother, Macropha; though she was fairer than Macropha--fairer, indeed, than any woman of my people whom I have seen.
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The dead face that was fair grows fairer each spring, sweet memories grow more sweet, what was silver is now gold, and as years go by, the very death of love becomes its immortality.
 
MrNovice said:
But if something has to be made "fairer", doesn't that negate the exact fairness that would need to be built on to make it "fairer"? So there is no fair to make it "fairer" ...
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See the contexts above how the word is used.. :)
 
MrNovice said:
Oh, come on...give us a "fairer" source... :laughing:
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Just saying it has been around for better part of 100 years...how we "view" someone who says it is one thing, but to deny that it IS a word and has been for years, is ignoring a fact. lol
 
NectarDetector said:
Just saying it has been around for better part of 100 years...how we "view" someone who says it is one thing, but to deny that it IS a word and has been for years, is ignoring a fact. lol
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Well, I knew if Jenny is "fairer" skinned than Marcy, then that's fine. But wasn't sure about something regarding deal making. So since I haven't had time to do the homework yet...is "fairer" right, or is it "more fair"?
 
You Think English is Easy???

You Think English is Easy???

Native English speakers don't grasp the complexities of the English language. English is my second language. Fortunately, I learned it at a fairly early age.



Can you read these right the first time?


1) The bandage was wound around the wound.


2) The farm was used to produce produce.


3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.


4) We must polish the Polish furniture.


5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"


You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is"UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP .

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........... it is time to shut UP.....!
 
Rudy said:
You Think English is Easy???
Native English speakers don't grasp the complexities of the English language. English is my second language. Fortunately, I learned it at a fairly early age.
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I was sent the scent for one cent.

And why do people always say they are going down to <insert northerly destination here> or up to <insert southerly destination here>.

For example, one of my sisters will always say she is going up to the cape, when the cape is clearly south of her. I just assume she is taking the long way up through Maine and Canada, through the Arctic, etc and back up through South and Central America, etc. Seems like a very long and round about way to get there.
 
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