Grr, trying to watch the grand tour and getting distracted by this thread.
Sorry, I'm guilty of getting to point 2 and stopping reading after '....compared to anyone else'.
Having looked again my initial thought was that it wasn't stated so there's no implication. By saying most beer is missing "of the" you're creating a fake premise whereby you can add an alternative view where ".... compared to anyone else" is missing but somehow implied.
That's just wrong, and in trying to think how I'd explain it as wrong I'm thinking "Whilst you could say 'most of the beer', just saying 'most beer' is perfectly acceptable on its own too; there's nothing missing from that which allows you to just add an extra condition".
Hmm is that right? Would you say 'most beer'? But that's the thing, this isn't a fair comparison; it was "most people have blue eyes", are you going to say that this is shorthand for "most of the people have blue eyes"? It seems to me that trying to come up with analogies only confuses what was already very simple.
If I can be facetious (and when am I ever not):
I'm the best darts in the world.
I missed out 'at', and that's a false statement. I also missed out 'apart from people who are better than me', so it's alternatively true!
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