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Setsu-P has stepped out

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:30 pm


Isn't it "elitist"?

Being a member of the superior elite simply means one is more elite than the rest, not that they're the "elitest" person around. That's the only context in which I could imagine "elitest" being mistaken for a real word, but that's never the context I see it in.

This gets me right in the same tender spot that the mixup between "hoard" and "horde" does. The murderous-red-rage-triggering spot.

I'd be a total Nazi if I actually corrected people.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:21 pm


Uhm.

Okay?

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TheCranialSlave

PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:52 am


Yeah, an "elitist" is a member of the "elite". Whereas, "more elite" would be the comparative form and "most elite" would be the superlative. It seems to me that "elitest" is either a misspelling, or a mix-up with the superlative form. You know...."happiest"..."elitest". <
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