Re: Speaker Relative Adjectives

dunn patrick w wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, dunn patrick w wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, vardi wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps the conculture, or conpoliticalscenario, might be a kind of
> > > cultural relativism gone crazy? Then people might indeed need a word for
> > > "blue, relative to my perception, but without implying that I'm
> > > establishing some norms for what blue is for someone else."
> > >
> > > Or there again perhaps not.
> >
> > Ever read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?  "IF I were qualified to make
> > a statement in regards to weather, and if my perceptions were accurate, I
> > might assume, in the face of the evidence available, that it seemed to be
> > raining, but then again, I could be wrong."  ;)
> >
> > I'd bet a language with such relative adjectives would have a *pile* of
> > subjective cases.  I wouldn't know what you'd call them, though.
>
> subjunctive.  Subjunctive.  Gods, my brain is turning to jelly.
>
> --Pat

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people (or anyway I) assume your talking about some grammatical category
I haven't learned about yet.  If you hadn't said anything I wouldn't
have given it a second thought.