jjbowks | HERE’S A RADICAL IDEA
Here's a radical idea,
since the suggestion of
keeping a beginning vocab
list of 500 to 600 words
would seem enticing for
beginning speakers, a
great help would be to
instead make a list of
500 or so "roots",
or "radices".
With so many words in
Romance languages having
pre-, post-, pro-, per-
com- (col-, con-, cor- etc.)
in- (il-, ir- etc.) contra-
ob- and ab- and ad- and
others... by taking these
prefixes off you have word
roots which when listed
together can be very useful
to form words, and order
up a colum of prefixes
which can join to them
and voila' you've got
yourself a neat little
package. Very "nouveau"
and "retro" at the same
time... Throw in some
Greek roots used internationally
and you've got the coverage
for science and technology,
a real dynamo!
Of course this is exactly
what happens naturally,
we take it for granted
and forget that a lot of
the words we use everyday
are merely fabrications
or constructions made
from meaningful blocks.
antidisestablishmentarianism
break that into single blocks
and you've got meaninful clusters
of sounds which can be put together
nicely to form words or individually.
anti, dis, establish, ment, etc.
Since,
Jay B.
--- In europidgin@y..., "europidgin" <europidgin@y...> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> --- In europidgin@y..., "kevinbsmith" <yahoogroups@q...> wrote:
> > I like simplicity,
>
> I agree! Let us follow the KISS principle. You know: Keep It
Simple Stupid ;-)