Alright let's take a look at this first question. Here their question is; do you think this
is grammatically correct? “Our creamiest, now creamier.” “This was an advertisement of the
coffee brand which aired on television. Is this an exception to the rules of degrees of comparison?
I thought the right order would be cream, creamier, and creamiest.”
So, this is a great question and thank you so much Laica for your question. So, let's take a look
so here. You're right that the normal way we compare things is we have our base adjective.
So here, creamy, creamier, and creamiest right. So, we have our comparative adjective and our
superlative adjective creamy. So, I’ll put a “C” here comparative, “S” for superlative. So,
the coffee company saying our creamiest, now creamier is correct. That is grammatically correct
and let's take a look at why. This means that the coffee is creamier than their creamiest
product so far. Well maybe that sounds a little confusing. So, let's say I like to make coffee
and I have made many coffees, and I have my coffee I have made it is the creamiest I have made.
But then, maybe tomorrow I find a way to make it even creamier. So, this means that it is just the
most so far, so our creamiest. Let's underline our creamiest. Maybe let's say until now,
and then they made a change, now even creamier. So, we use the superlative form to talk about,
yes, the most of something, but it can be the most of something until a certain point
in time. We can say something is “er” than the first thing. So, we can say, so if we have our
comparative and superlative, we can say something is more something than a superlative. Let's take a
look at a few more examples, “he is smarter than your smartest friend.” Okay so, here my friends,
I’m thinking about my friends. Where'd my mouse go? There we are. Your smartest friend
here, we're using the superlative because it's your smartest friend in your friend group right,
so the superlative doesn't mean everyone and everything in the world. It can just mean for
that situation. So, your smartest friend, but “he” is smarter. So, this person over
here is smarter than your smartest friend. So yes, we can say something is more than a
superlative. A superlative can be about a previous or past time, or just about one group of things.
“This is the most delicious pizza I have had, but I think that pasta is more delicious. Right so,
the group is pizza, but I think something else is even more delicious. Right so, here's another one,
“it is hotter than the hottest chili pepper I have had.” So here we're looking at
something that happened in the past maybe in 2010, or let's say even more recent let's say in 2020.
“I had the hottest chili pepper I have ever had.” And then in let's say today,
I have a new chili pepper that's even hotter. I can say, “it's hotter than the
hottest chili pepper I have had,” at some time before. Right, it's even more than that. So,
the superlative has now changed, now this pepper is the hottest pepper right.