R: Re: Positive - Comparative - Superlative

> Tundra and Forest Nenets, Nganasan and Enets, and I think also Selkup, so
> I would venture to say all the Samoyedic languages have a "hyperlative",
> ie. one stage higher than superlative.
>
> So does Hungarian, but with Hungarian it can go infinitely as it follows a
> regular pattern:
>
> nagy = big
> nagyobb = bigger
> legnagyobb = biggest
> legeslegnagyobb = bigger than the biggest
> legeslegeslegnagyobb etc.
>
> but it can get a bit ridiculous after the 6th point up...
Spoken Italian does the same:

bello = beautiful
bellissimo = the most beautiful
bellissimissimo = even more beautiful than the most beautiful.

But, as you tell me it happens in Hungarian, it gets ridiculous in Italian
as well.

Luca

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