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Originally Posted by Emma But in this sentence "I was looking more svelte and less swelte
than I am today" swelte (= swelt ?) seems to have a different meaning from svelte... |
Quite an odd sentence, isn't it? The grammar is off, not to mention the spelling.
Hmm.
I believe the writer/speaker was trying to express this,
I was more svelte in the past--that is, less svelte than I am today. I am still svelte today, but not as svelte as I was a long time ago.
All the best,