Re: Comparison of adjectives (dumb question department)

Michael Poxon wrote:
>Hi,
>My first thought is that these terms are so uncommon and unwieldy (even to
>linguists) that you won't need to use them at all. And of course if 99.9%
>of people don't know these words, they'll need to look them up, but if
>they're not in the OED either, your audience will still be stymied. I'd say
>define the concepts for yourself, using simpler terms.
On balance I think you're right.......So, I'm going to use "target" and
"standard".  Can't imagine where I heard the Latin terms, perhaps some
obscure ling. article years ago, maybe something in XIX C. Dutch/Indonesian
studies...... or maybe in a dream :-)))))