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The Comparative is made by means of the word "pli", the Superlative by
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In a comparison made by the use of "pli" or "malpli", the case used after "ol", than, must indicate clearly the sense intended:
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Esperanto has only one method, using the adverbs "pli", more, and
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I hope so; but that time must be when he is young, or it will never be at all; the right 'pli' must be taken young, or it will never be easy or seem natural.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
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I hope so; but that time must be when he is young, or it will never be at all; the right 'pli' must be taken young, or it will never be easy or seem natural.
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Note 9: Meeting Minutes for 23 April 1749, Procès Verbaux de l'Académie royale des Sciences 68 (1749); Pierre-Joseph Macquer, "Teinture en bleu qui n'utilise ni pastel ni indigo," AdS pli cacheté, no.
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Late in 1767, Louis-Guillaume de la Follie, a Rouen textile manufacturer, submitted a pli cacheté to the Paris Academy of Sciences. 18 While this tactic of depositing a sealed envelope at the Academy was often employed to establish the primacy of a discovery, de la Follie's motivation is unclear.
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Note 18: Louis-Guillaume de la Follie, "Mémoire sur la théorie des couleurs," 9 January 1768, pli cacheténo.
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There are plenty of folks on the other side of that divide who would vomit at the suggestion that they listen to Pli selon pli.
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There are plenty of folks on the other side of that divide who would vomit at the suggestion that they listen to Pli selon pli.
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