> Hello all,
> And thanks to those who helped me get to digest mode. Sharing a phone line
> with 12 others does not allow one to surf to search for such information. I
> am home now recuperating and thinking deep conlang thoughts.
>
> Along the way there has been a thread regarding the comparison of
> adjectives. I apologize if I'm duplcating anything; hospitaliztion has a way
> of setting aside much. I have had an idea of my own in this regard. Perhaps
> the collected wisdom of those reading can help.
>
> My modern language studies have alwyas laid out the comparison of adjectives
> in three layers, postitive comparative and superaltive, big, bigger,
> biggest. I'm thinking of a system (and I spend hours on end thinking before
> I would ever put out any of my thoughts) I find this a constriction rather
> than a freedom.
>
> I have seen some conlangs that extend this system as if in a mirror with a
> reverse side sort of
>
> ante-superlative ante-comparitive positive comparative superlative, 5 points
> on a continuum instead of 3 on a continuum. I'd like to see this expanded
> even more. The problem is how to express the continuum.
>
> For example. I play the oboe. There are five oboes in the oboe family. They
> are as follows
>
> oboe-musette
> oboe proper
> oboe d'amore
> cor anglais
> bass oboe.
>
> The oboe-musette is the smallest of the five and the bass oboe is the
> largest. How can I show a unique relationship between the five of them
> without repeating "bigger than the one above it," or "smaller than the one
> below it?" I'd like some succint ways to handle this rather than the "ante"
> method above and the simple three step process.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Scott Hlad
>
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> Scott W. Hlad
> Teran, a Conlang
>
http://www.teran-conlang.org
> mailto:scott@kohath.org
>