Re: [lojban] RE:literalism

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote:

> Other than Esperanto, is there any language that uses it for
> opposite? I always thought it came from a few French words
> like "maladroit" which is opposite of "adroit", but the
> meaning of the suffix is not opposite.

Both of those are English words as well:  /@'drOjt/, /'m&l@drOjt/.

> And in any case, English does not really have any prefix
> for derogatives that I know of. It usually has a separate
> word. For example, for Spanish "casa", "casucha", English
> has "house", "hovel". There's no "mal-house" or anything
> of that sort.

Indeed.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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