R: Re: Question about German

Nik wrote:

> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > for instance the 'funny' superlative of 'beter' - 'beterder'
>
> I take it _beter_ is cognate with English "better"?  Reminds me of forms
> like "more better" in English.
Or those 'più meglio', 'più peggio', 'ottimissimo' every and each Italian
teacher has to fight from the 1st year of Elementary school :-)

Lombard OTOH, being a dialect and allowing such redundant things, has
institutionalized forms as 'püssee mèj' /py'se: mEj/.

Luca

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