Re: Equatives?

At 15:01 10.3.2003 -0500, Aidan Grey wrote:

>Sally cande:
>>Absolute:    nemta laz   (cloud white, i.e., a "white cloud.")
>>Equative:    ta  nemta hdo laz (like a cloud as white.)
>>Comparative:  ta nemta maka laz (than a cloud more white)
>>Superlative:   ta nemtan hse laz  (of clouds most white)
>>Alterative:   ta nemta uor laz   (from cloud a different kind of white,
>>            a different kind of white from that of a cloud.)
>>
>>Teonaht also has a "just the right amount" of something in the adverb _no~_:
>>         no~ mohsa, "just big enough,"  no~ aista,  "work enough."
>>While it suggests equitability, it is not quite the equative.  It's
>>something that's good enough for the task at hand.
>
>   I like both the alterative and this no~particle - I'm gonna steal them.
>But could I get an example (or two) of the alterative in a sentence?
>
>   Aidan
I'll have to steal them too.  It is all so very Sohlob!



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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