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Re: comparatives



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Rex May" <rmay@m...> wrote:
> --- 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? 

Yes.

> And ditch "pul"  and "somi"?
Yes.

> 
> Did you get the vocabulary I sent a few days ago?  You need to 
tell 
> me how to upload it onto my site.
I got it. I'll look into uploads on your site. I can also put it on my 
site, as well as here on the yahoo group.