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on 3/30/02 12:09 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: A quick attempt: > > 1) His nose is as red as my nose. Dasa hana seim hoq cem gosa hana. or Dasa hana kwql hoq cem gosa hana. > 2) His nose is redder than my nose. Dasa hana plu hoq cem gosa hana. > 3) His nose is not as red as my nose. Dasa hana bu kwql hoq cem gosa hana. > 4) His nose is less red than my nose. Dasa hana (less) hoq cem gosa hana. >3) and 4) have the same meaning. Colloquially, yes, but in fact, 3 could mean either that his nose is less or more red, just not the same. -- >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/