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[kittydesade]

The comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs correspond to English forms such as prettier or more pretty. (Technically they correspond to 'prettier' since 'more pretty' is just another word jammed in, whine bitch sulk moan.) The following comparative forms come only in the predicate adjective position.

«Братья Карамазовы» - сложный роман, а «Идиот» сложнее. The Brothers Karamazov is a complex novel, but The Idiot is more complex.

Трудно читать по-испански, но читать по-русски труднее. ДА. ПРАВДА. It is difficult to read in Spanish, but it is more difficult to read in Russian.

The comparative forms of most Russian adjectives and adverbs have the ending -ee
интересный -- интересно -- интереснее - more interesting
понятный -- понятно -- понятнее - more understandable
серьёзный -- серьёзно -- серьёзнее - more serious

If the stem has only one syllable, the stress in the comparative normally shifts to the ending.

сложный -- сложно -- сложнее - more complex
скорый -- скоро -- скорее - sooner, more likely
тёплый -- тепло -- теплее - warmer
трудный -- трудно -- труднее - more difficult
умный -- умно -- умнее - smarter

A number of comparatives are irregular and must be memorized. Because languages are annoying like that.

хороший -- хорошо -- лучше - better
плохой -- плохо -- хуже - worse
большой -- много -- больше - bigger
маленький - мало -- меньше - smaller, less
молодой -- молодо -- моложе - younger
старый -- хххх -- старше - older (for people)
редкий -- редко -- реже - more rarely
частый -- часто -- чаще - more frequently
близкий -- близко -- ближе - closer
далёкий -- далеко -- дальше - further
дорогой -- дорого -- дороже - more expensive
дешёвый -- дёшево -- дешевле - cheaper
долгий -- долго - дольше - longer
короткий -- коротко -- короче - shorter
лёгкий -- легко -- легче - lighter/easier
простой -- просто -- проще - simpler
ранний -- рано -- раньше - earlier
поздний -- поздно -- позже (позднее) - later
жаркий -- жарко -- жарче - hotter


I have no idea what's going on with you, computer. Or maybe web browser. But I do not much like it. You'd best behave yourself, or I'll take a magnet to you.

So, there was a huge rant here about stupid languages and their stupid exceptions, but mostly it consisted of repetitions of that in various swears with finger pointing and shaking at various languages, so pretend I bitched and moaned at you as well as poor Kiki this morning. This is what happens when I drink a good-sized cup of cocoa and then realize I have to type up a frillion and one (maybe about twenty in the real world) strings of adjectives-adverbs-superlatives. Oops.

Feeling considerably less cranky, thanks to the boy picking up some yesterday. I love the boy, I do. The table got moved back, I got my exercise in. Did not get my walkies in on account of snow, bastard weather, but at least I got some exercise in.

Oof. There were two points I mean to make, one long ramble about yesterday and how knowing what's making me seemingly irrationally cranky usually does a good job at starting me off not being cranky, and then another related one about how self-monitoring and self-awareness is a good and possibly necessary way to maintain mental/emotional stability, whether it goes in conjunction with drugs or shrinks or habitual behavior or what have you, and so on. (This being, of course, in my experience.) And something about how it helps me go from stable to healthy to fan-fucking-tastic and back again to stable, which is usually the 'at worst' these days.

And then I was derailed by a comment in another person's journal stating that her life's experience gives her the authority to say that men and women communicate in fundamentally different ways because it's just in our biological makeup to do so. Anthropologist says what? There was more to this rant but I'm not coherent enough to make it and too busy chewing on someone's spleen. Sigh.

Right. Finishing making my lassi and getting my freezing dumb ass out of here. And, self, this is your reminder, work on your writing schedule when you get to work now that you have a sort of clearer idea what the hell you're doing. And you've almost finished with the bloody beast of a world-building exercise set. Holy christ that thing's huge.