Re: Positive - Comparative - Superlative

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.


-Stephen (Steg)
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  that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
  miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
  Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
  limits.  Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
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