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on 3/29/02 3:13 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> >> We need good morphemes for more, most, less, and least. In single >> syllables. >> >> How about pli, zwey for the first two? > > I'm not sure we need morphemes for the latter two. Isn't the "least > good" the "most bad"? Ye-es, but not all such things are scalar, if that's what I mean. To zwey kala means the most black, and there isn't really a pokala, so there we'd want less and least. and I think they'd be handy in compounds, tho none other than your majority and minority spring to mind right away. Esperanto uses the opposite prefix on 'more' to make it 'less,' and it always seemed unwieldy to me. ] > > What does "pli" come from? And wouldn't "plu" be appropriate? "Pli" is from Esperanto, but you're right, we already have 'plu.' -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/