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Re: comparatives



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote:
> --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> 
> wrote:
> > Just occured to me that we could have "pul" for 'less', derived 
> from "plu".
> > And an alternate superlative possibility is "simo" from Spanish 
> ending
> > -isimo., with an opposite of "somi".
> > -- 
> 
> Too close. Words that are likely to occur in the same context 
> shouldn't be so similar.

Agree again.  For plu and pul, certainly.  But shall we keep "simo" 
as a possible way to form the superlative?  And ditch "pul" 
and "somi"?

Did you get the vocabulary I sent a few days ago?  You need to tell 
me how to upload it onto my site.