Re: Equatives?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:33:15AM +0100, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> * H. S. Teoh said on 2003-03-10 23:17:52 +0100
[snip]
> > Hmm, sounds similar to Ebisedian's _i're_ ["?ir`&], which incidentally was
> > introduced to the lexicon only today.
[...]
> > This is rather difficult to translate... it's closest to the Mandarin
> > exclamation _tsen1 shi4_. Literally, "it is really"; it's used as an
> > exclamation of exasperation, similar in feeling to "geez, *some* people
> > are *just* like that!".
>
> Heh, I also have a word that *in English* might be translated to 'really',
> but with heavier weight on the exasperation/despair-axis...
>
> keigah: really, oh sure, yeah right, indeed, naturally, of course, aha, duh...
>
> Said in a *very* dry manner, tone going from the merely ironic to the
> straight out caustically sarcastic :)
Heh... the Ebisedian _i're_ doesn't really have sarcastic overtones, it's
just exasperation or indignance.

There is also _h0'n3ri_ ["hAn@\r`i], which is basically a jeer to the
effect of, "yeah yeah, we've seen that before. Boring. Show us something
new already".

> For emphasis there's i-, and in addition to superlative there's a way
> to express too much, -arrinn, and too little, -eirinn, now what can
> these be called? Super-duperlative? Megative? Over-the-top-ative?
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Good question. I call _i're_ the "emphatic particle"; besides that,
there's also _chaa'r_ (too much) and _su_ (too little), as well as
_Ke'kro_ (the most) and _Pi'mo_ (the least). I suppose _Ke'kro_ and
_Pi'mo_ would be superlatives; I'm not sure what to call _chaa'r_ and
_su_. Perhaps "excessive" and "deprivative"? :-)


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