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Originally posted by chumsae:

I wasn't aware that stupider was actually a word, but it can still be argued that it was a poor choice of vocab.

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Can you think of a comparative degree adjective that doesn't need a modifier (i.e. less) which means stupid?

I came up with:
Dumber (bad choice)
Stupider
Slower (obvious issues here)

If I had said less intelligent (or smart, clever, etc) that would have just given the sentence and academic tone. It was supposed to be punchy.

That is all.

No-xc doesn't take as much talent-it takes more determination. Look at a kid whose 6'8" and has a vertical jump of 28 inches-natural basketball player

Kid who is big and runs fast-footballer.

Skinny kid with a work ethic?...um, Cross Country!
Seriously-anybody who does base training diligently for 8 months a year HAS to be good if they have a coach-maybe not great, but certainly good.

Now look at that 5'4" guy with a leap of 9"-no matter how hard he works, he'll never really be anywhere near as good at basketball as his enormous friend.

Or the 140 pound Junior who has lifted weights since he was six-kicker, maybe, but never fullback.

Wrestling is like this-it does require everything-speed, agility, strength, and so on, but mostly just hard work. Many EXCELLENT wrestlers weren't ever really good at other stuff.
Dan Gable (best wrestler of all time anywhere) said, "You give me a kid with average talent, and if he does what I tell him to, (work out 3 times a day, hard) He will be a national champion".

I personally think running is the same way-which is why I like it.

my trak team-Oakcrest won South Jersey Sectionals, and we have a lot of very good athletes, but most of them are all thugs and are pretty dumb as well

Huh - as far as I know I'm the only runner in my school, so that's an interesting theory you've got...

well, this definitely happens at my school. All the varsity athletes are on ap and honors, and some of the better jv's.
I think it's just because of the hard work factor.

People who work hard in school obviously have the ambition to do well, so they would take that ambition and put it into everything they do, in this case, running.

GPA is such a stupid way of measuring "smartness".




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Originally posted by chumsae:

I wasn't aware that stupider was actually a word, but it can still be argued that it was a poor choice of vocab.

Though, I can't be called an idiot for writing quickest instead of slowest, because Deadpixel stated that the dumber the runner at her/his school, the faster they are.

decides you're an idiot instead and that some of you are trying to act like crazy

You misunderstand. Stupider is a word, therefore there is nothing wrong with Deadpixel's vocab and he is smart. Because he is smart, he must be slow, so he is one of the slowest runners at his school

RE comparative form of stupid: 'He is more stupid than me' sounds wrong, 'He is more stupid than I am' maybe. 'He is stupider than me' is what I would say. There aren't any hard and fast rules about which words take more and which ones take -er, it depends how easy it is to say.

my entie teams like that..over here we have this thing called a scholar team, and you have to have a 90 or over cumlative average for the varsity runners. our team has had that ever since i can remeber