19 Dec
2010
19 Dec
'10
3:41 p.m.
Most(?) human languages have positive, comparative, and superlative, corresponding to 1, 2, and infinity. But we clearly need forms for 0, -1, -2, and -infinity. (Provisionally: inoperative, depreciative, pejorative, and besmirchative.) Also adverbial forms. Tongue-in-cheeklier, --rwg