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france-eesti wrote:The person after me did a good action deed today and he'll tell us what it was.
Jullí wrote:Fresh fruit, dates, raisins, dried cranberries are usually enough for me whenever I need to satisfy my sweet tooth.
Osias wrote:I am actually the heavier one.
france-eesti wrote:What's the person after me's favorite dish for Christmas (or the local religious equivalent)?
linguoboy wrote:Osias wrote:I am actually the heavier one.
This makes it sound like there are only two people in your family.
It's part of the "planet Earth experience" package I subscribed.The person after me has eaten food.
Osias wrote:Really? I don't have examples right now, but I think I've seen a picture with like five cats and someone refers to one of them like "the black one" or posts like that. Or even a person in a country as "the X-est one from Country Y".
Osias wrote:linguoboy wrote:Osias wrote:I am actually the heavier one.
This makes it sound like there are only two people in your family.
Really? I don't have examples right now, but I think I've seen a picture with like five cats and someone refers to one of them like "the black one" or posts like that. Or even a person in a country as "the X-est one from Country Y".
linguoboy wrote:Yeah...see, the thing is, our language has a positive, a comparative, and a superlative. The comparative is used when comparing two things or groups of things. "I am heavier than you", for instance. But when more than two are involved, we need the superlative. I can be heavier than some members of my family but not the heaviest among them.
IpseDixit wrote:Portuguese and all other Romance languages have a superlative too though. (Maybe I misunderstood you but the way you phrased it seemed to suggest that Portuguese doesn't have a superlative)
Osias wrote: only two persons
linguoboy wrote:. Yes, "fruit" is often a mass noun, particularly in the collocation "fresh fruit", but given that everything else in the list is pluralised, it sounds slightly off to me not to treat it as a count noun here--perfectly grammatical, mind you, but just the slightest bit off.
Osias wrote:
Jesus Himself baptized the person after me, even it was not His custom. (His apostles did the baptisms.)
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