Re: R: Re: Positive - Comparative - Superlative

Steg wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:03:53 -0800 Barry Garcia
> <Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> > Hmm.......i do wonder if the above is possible in Spanish:
> >
> > bellisimisimo
> >
> > Sounds very funny to me. But not being a native speaker, i dont know
> > if
> > natives would do that. I suspect they'd find it very odd sounding
> > (i've
> > only heard bellisimo for instance, or my fave: el quesisimo - the
> > cheesiest)
> -
>
> In either Spanish III or AP Spanish in highschool, we were taught about
> the three prefixes "re-/rete-/requete-", which are some kind of
> intensifyer markers... you'd have a continuum:
> bello
> rebello
> retebello
> requetebello
>
> which isn't connected to the use of "-ísimo".
>
> So of course we used to say things like "¡requetebellísimo!" although i
> don't know if a native speaker would do that... it might sound as absurd
> as those 6-time reduplicated Hungarian examples.
>
Italian, on the other hand, has the prefix stra-:

bello
strabello = bellissimo

Latin had prae-:

clarus
praeclarus = clarissimus

Luca

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