Friday, May 04, 2007
Extra Clean
On my way to work I passed a used car dealer. On the windshield of one of the cars for sale was the sign: "Extra Clean."
I started to ponder whether I had stumbled onto another abuse of the English language. Then again who am I to talk.
Be that as it may, I started thinking about "Extra Clean." Does this mean the other cars for sale are not as clean? I've never considered varying degrees of clean. Clean, cleaner, cleanest .... doesn't make a lot of sense. Wouldn't you always want the cleanest possible ... if it's not the cleanest then isn't just dirty? Clean should be a binary condition, it's either clean, as clean as can be, or it's just dirty.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 9:03 PM