Romashka comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Romashka 08 December 2014 03:46:43PM *  0 points [-]

It's not exactly a poorly categorized concept, but in English you usually need one word to come from 'basic form of adgective' to 'comparative form of adjective', (wide - wider), but you need two words for adverbs ( to come from 'widely' to 'more widely'). In Russian you need one word to say 'more adverb'