Re: [Firebird-docs] RefGuide: FLOOR

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

At 08:07 AM 29/11/2007, Frank Ingermann wrote:

>> It should be "less than" or "smaller than", think I.
>
>actually it would be Mützenich-English ( i just moved ;-) ) - no
>problem to change that. (although i just checked that "lesser" actually
>exists, but never mind - that happens when a half-dutch half-german
>person living practically in Belgium tries to write English :-) )

Frank, "lesser" is an adjective, as in "I chose the lesser evil" - mostly used by poets and pedants like me in the modern era. :-) 

As a qualifying adverb of degree: "less than" (alter ego to "more than"), "This choice was less evil than that choice". 

Degree:  "evil" --> "less evil" --> "least evil" (if there are more than 2 evils).
              "evil" --> "more evil" ---> "most evil".

But there is no "morer": 
              "evil" --> "greater evil" ---> "greatest evil"

Goodness knows why the world is standardising on this least standard of all languages. ;-)

Helen