Re: Degrees of comparation

> > Those Teonim seems to've got good taste! :-)
>
> Don't they!
Yes, I like the Teonim, though they spell things funny and sometimes
confuse me.

>  They love Yivrindel words, too.  And
> Draseleq.
<<blush>>.  Why, thank you!  It's always nice to know that other people
notice and like your conlangs.  I wasn't even bothered by the fact that
you misspelled the name.  People are always misspelling the name of my
conlang for some reason, either misplacing/leaving off the accent, or
changing some of the vowels.  I must have picked a hard-to-remember name,
somehow.

While I'm here I might as well describe the Yivríndil comparative system,
which contains nothing as interesting as the "differently equal" degree,
but which I'm fond of nonetheless.  There are two series, which I call
Degree and Comparison.

Degree:
haril        "beautiful:
harilla        "very beautiful"
harillai        "extremely beautiful, overwhelmingly beautiful"
harillui        "too beautiful, excessively beautiful"

With the Comparison series, the word "lan" is used for "as", and ín/íl
indicate positive or negative comparison

Comparison:
harilla lan        "just as beautiful as"
harillo ín / harillo íl        "more beautiful than / less beautiful
than"
harillu ín / harillu íl        "most beautiful / least beautiful"

Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com
"There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough
darkness for those of a contrary disposition."  --Blaise Pascal

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