Re: Tasratal: more connectives

On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 11:45 , David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 10/31/01 8:26:50 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
>
> << all: ta [ta]
> some: bu [Pu]
> none: roq [rox] >>
>
>     So...what about "many", "most", "few"?  Or does "few" not contrast
> with
> "some" for you?  ("Some" is more than "few" to me.)
<fiendish g>  There's another triad:
decreasing/less: ru [ru]
increasing/more: ro [ro]
equilibrium/same: ban [Pan]

For "many" or "most" you could say either ru-ta (less than all) or ro-bu
(more than some).  For "few" you could say ro-roq (more than none) or
ru-bu [less than some).   So you have choices depending on what you want
to emphasize...and I'm lazy, so I figured combining existing connectives
would be useful.  :-)  You're right--my personal hierarchy goes something
like:

none < few < several < some < many < most < all

(I'm sure I missed a couple.)

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