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Day 266: September 22, 2024


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Conlang Year, Day 266 prompt

Goal: Brainstorm ideas for superlative strategies

Note: This may mean creating new inflections, adverbs, and/or clausal strategies.

Tip: Superlatives include examples like “The mouse is smallest” or “The rabbit is most beautiful.”

Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try


Today’s goal focuses on a feature related to comparative strategies: strategies for forming a superlative, or a comparison of the extreme. For instance, if you are looking at a mouse, cat, and deer, you can say “The mouse is smallest (of all three)” or “The deer is tallest (of them all).” The superlative is a way of saying “of this group, NOUN is the most ATTRIBUTE,” where the attribute is any feature you might use as a point of comparison for the given group.

Take some time today to explore superlative strategies in other languages to start thinking about how you might treat superlatives in your conlang.