Comment on The rise and fall of the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and other games (2018)Comments−leoc7yFor his part, Buckleitner thinks this is too neat of an explanation.'too neat an explanation'. 'neat' is an adjective, so there's no call for 'of' here. It's bad enough when people get this wrong in speech ...−triangleman7yhttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of...−leoc7yThe dictionary.com quotation proves my point. TFA is neither spoken nor informal English, it's trying to be broadsheet-quality written journalism. In that sort of context, using dodgy colloquialisms sounds real dumb like.
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'too neat an explanation'. 'neat' is an adjective, so there's no call for 'of' here. It's bad enough when people get this wrong in speech ...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of...
The dictionary.com quotation proves my point. TFA is neither spoken nor informal English, it's trying to be broadsheet-quality written journalism. In that sort of context, using dodgy colloquialisms sounds real dumb like.