Subj : Misinterpretation...  1.
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Mon May 04 2020 22:26:42

Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in an addendum to yourself:

AS>  Since the new virus is more deadly than flu, it is only
AS>  meet to give it more weight over other factors in the
AS>  attribution of death.

AS>  Mefears it is an illiterate usage of "meet". Should not
AS>  I have written instead: "...it is only meet that it
AS>  (should) receive more weight over other factors..."


           AFAIK the second alternative is the usual construction...



AS>  I have not found a reliable number of instances of "it
AS>  is only meet to" in Google books, although I see no
AS>  problem with it...


           ... but I see no grammatical reason to avoid using the first.  :-)




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