HOW _______ IS IT?
Here's a fun thing about languages. In English, we have suffixes for two degrees of superiority beyond the standard: -er for comparatives and -est for superlatives.

In Inuktitut, a language that has suffixes for (seriously) just about everything, there are six degrees of superiority beyond the standard (big): comparative (bigger), superlative (biggest), exclamative (very big), excessive (too big), extra-excessive (much too big), and outrageous (bigger than is normal or decent). It's true that we can express these ideas in English, of course, but we don't have a simple suffix for them. It's the presence of the last one, in particular, that pleases me greatly. :-)

I'm back in school, incidentally. Could you tell?