Two guys in John Jay, getting silverware:
Guy 1: Are you saying you’re smarter than me?
Guy 2: *shrugs* A little bit, yeah.
As Mencken wrote, “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
More brutal honesty via Wikimedia
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@Anonymous I’m sorry, but guy 2 may be right, because guy 1 should have said “smarter than I am.”
@While I absolutely love to explore... …the few remnants of English’s half-dead case system, I really don’t think preservation of grammatical case in comparative constructions is an indication of intelligence.
@Anonymous I’m an engineer and what is this?
@Anonymous Grammar nazism
@if guy 1 says: Are you saying that you are smarter than I am.
then
guy 3 will beat up guy 1