Re: Degrees of adjectives

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@W...>
wrote:

>It's interesting to see that you remove redundancy on the side of
>comparative/superlative, and introduce redundancy by splitting
>positive and equative :)
As I understand it these are two different concepts and they are
expressed differently morphologically.

The man is tall.
tun µírun vérqun nésa.
the man tall he-is.

The man is as tall as the woman.
tun µírun vèrqëstálun tus göénus nèµa nésa.
the man as-tall-as the woman with-respect-to he-is.

These two sentences express different thoughts and the difference is
expressed morphologically.

With respect to comparative/superlative, however, I believe that a
comparison is a comparison is a comparison.  It makes no difference
how many items are being compared.  English happened to evolve two
forms, one for comparing two items, one for comparing three or more.
And so, I consider two different forms for comparison redundant;
convenient, but redundant.

Charlie :-)>
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