Re: Comparatives (Difficult?!)

Carsten Becker wrote:
>How would your conlang (or any natlang you know)
>express this sentence -- I am intersted in the sentence
>structure of course, not just the words themselves. Here is
>the sentence:
>
> "It took five days longer than it should have taken."
A Classical Ályis speaker would say something like this:

Liomáine tol lam iliabáneme láine.
L-i-om-áine tol lam i-l-i-abáneme l-áine.
It-PAST-more-last five days PAST-it-PAST-have_to_happen it-last.

One could also say "liomáine tol lam hæ iliabáneme láine", with "hæ" roughly
meaning "that", but it would sound rather "foreign" for a native. :-)

Cheers,
- Abel Chiaro

--
"Hæ Ástis lástethe!"