fresher or more fresh

[Michael Hamm]

You will feel more fresh...
You will feel fresher...

'Fresher' sounds good to me (raised in 1980s' New York City).

Michael Hamm
BA scl Math, PBK, NYU
***@math.wustl.edu
http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/

[Padraig Breathnach]

You will feel more fresh...
You will feel fresher...
Which is good English? Does the adverb fresh have the inflectional comparative form?

I think both are widely used. I am more likely to use "fresher".

PB

[Mike Lyle]

CyberCypher <***@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<***@130.133.1.4>...
[...]

"If you keep leafy vegetables in a refrigerator, they will look and
feel fresher than if you keep them in a plastic bag on the kitchen
table"0
as opposed to
"If you keep leafy vegetables in a refrigerator, they will look and
feel more fresh than if you keep them in a plastic bag on the
kitchen table".
Both are acceptable English, but the former is preferable to the
latter, IMHO.

Actually, if I were marking an exam paper I'd take off a mark for
"*more fresh*: it's so atypical that it has to be called wrong, at
least at the learning level. I'd also change it in almost any text I
was editing: I suspect it's one of those things we start to feel must
be acceptable when we've spent too long in the company of foreigners.

Mike.

[Charles Riggs]

You will feel more fresh...
You will feel fresher...
Which is good English? Does the adverb fresh have the inflectional
comparative form?

Given a proper sentence, "fresher" is the more common and better
"If you keep leafy vegetables in a refrigerator, they will look and
feel fresher than if you keep them in a plastic bag on the kitchen
table"0

I agree that fresher is better. The proper sentence I'd cite is "A
woman will be fresher if she bathes daily". I needn't add "tastier".

[CyberCypher]

Post by Charles Riggs

You will feel more fresh...
You will feel fresher...
Which is good English? Does the adverb fresh have the inflectional
comparative form?

Given a proper sentence, "fresher" is the more common and better
"If you keep leafy vegetables in a refrigerator, they will look and
feel fresher than if you keep them in a plastic bag on the kitchen
table"0

I agree that fresher is better. The proper sentence I'd cite is "A
woman will be fresher if she bathes daily". I needn't add "tastier".

I've been told that taste and its complement, aroma, comes from the inside and depends upon what one eats.

[Charles Riggs]

Post by CyberCypher

Post by Charles Riggs

You will feel more fresh...
You will feel fresher...
Which is good English? Does the adverb fresh have the inflectional
comparative form?

Given a proper sentence, "fresher" is the more common and better
"If you keep leafy vegetables in a refrigerator, they will look and
feel fresher than if you keep them in a plastic bag on the kitchen
table"0

I agree that fresher is better. The proper sentence I'd cite is "A
woman will be fresher if she bathes daily". I needn't add "tastier".

I've been told that taste and its complement, aroma, comes from the inside and depends upon what one eats.

If I get your meaning, I know that it is a terrible idea to either
consume lemon juice or to brush one's teeth using toothpaste before
drinking a Guinness. I don't know how well this applies to other
brews. The second proscription is well known, but I believe I
discovered the first on my own.