Re: Augmentative adjectives

Josh Brandt-Young said:

>"My family isn't as fatter as they were before."
So they are fatter, but they just didn't get as MUCH fatter as they usually
do? Heh heh.

>Do you guys' conlangs have some way to express this?
Well, it does now! (thanks!)

In Rhean one could say this two ways:

1:
Gzok'o nubie yelom ebie ügortyanu mu nelios'.

"(my) family as-much-as before that-much fatter didn't get."
This is a | nu- ... e- | pair, which occur frequently in Rhean,
meaning "as X is, so Y is" or "as much as X, so much is Y",
or "as X does something, so Y does something" etc etc etc.
So "as much fatter as it got before, that much fatter it didn't get."

OR

2:
Gzok'o yela jostam ügortyanu mu nelios'.

"(my) family (in) before's degree fatter didn't get."

I like this one better. A simpler construction without losing any meaning.

NS

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