Comparative and superlative adjectives have not only been discarded by journalists and bureaucrats, now it seems by those who ought to know better:
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Supreme Court Justice Belinda Rigg said the evidence before her established “that ideally a year or many months of planning would have made this Sunday’s event more safe, and more predictable”.
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What's wrong with 'safer' Belinda - brevity is virtuous, whereas prolix from some (e.g. police commissioners) is a affectation, from others (e.g. judges) it ought be regarded as a sin.