activeselective | Simplifying affixes
- Autor: activeselective
- Tema: Simplifying affixes
- Data: 2005-11-12 08:13
- Mesaje: 1813 (presedente, seguente)
In our simplified vocabulary, shouldn't we have a list of standard affixes in LFN for the various affixes in other languages? = STANDARD AFFIXES For example, do we simplify the various affixes for "not" also to a more comprehensible LFN affix? (hopefully only one!) | prefix meaning "not" | a- (ahistorique / unhistorical) | an- (anarchy) | un- (unusual) | non- (nonsense) | anti- (antifascism) | contra- (contraproductive) | counter- (counterstrike) We could propose to reduce it all to "anti-" in LFN, simplifying it to only one affix. Just like we already have "-ia" (matre --> matria) | LFN: "-ia" | suffix meaning "concept behind..." | -hood (motherhood) | -ness (madness) | -ity (modernity) If so, then the question naturally pops up what to do with the many others, for example: | prefix meaning "outside" | de- (to detach) | out- (outsourcing) | extra- (extraordinary) | extern- (externalism) | | suffix meaning "science" | -logy (epistemology) | ...science (computational science --> computology) | | -mania (pyromania) meaning "madness" | | multi- (multinational) meaning "many" | poly- (polyarchy) meaning "many" | | demo- (democracy) meaning "people" | folk... (folk music) meaning "people" | | -cracy (democracy) meaning "rule" | -archy (monarchy) meaning "rule" | | -tone (monotone) meaning "tendency" | | -static (electrostatic) meaning "unchanging" | | auto- (automobile) meaning "self" | suis- (suicide) meaning "self" | | -matic (automatic) meaning "making (from within)" | -motive (locomotive) meaning "moving (from within)" = EXTRA RULES? I DON'T THINK SO. It might also mean making a general rule for combining affixes, just like in English: | -ation (creation) meaning "the process of...(crear)..." | -ify (to simplify) meaning "making it ...(simple)..." | -ification (simplification) = '-ify' + "-c-" + '-ation' | using a phoneme "-c-" Maybe such rules are not even necessary. Heh, thank heavens, we already have '-i' in "la simpli" for "the process of making it simple" (the simplification). = EXCEPTIONS Such a standard LFN simplified affix list would be helpfull. At least, it would be a very good starting point even if we might make exceptions on it. We might still prefer 'nonsens' in stead of 'antisens'. Then we pose 'anti-' as a standard affix for 'a-, un, an-, anti-, non-, contra-, counter-' but say that 'nonsens' is an exception. Such a list makes the language comprehensible and coherent. If someone would make a mistake in LFN (accidentilly saying 'antisens' in stead of 'nonsens') it would be easier understood because the "anti" is natural to LFN. In a language where the prefixes vary, it would be harder to understand. But in English, who would find the meaning 'nonsense' when someone accidentally says 'asense', 'unsense', 'antisense' or 'contrasense'? Adio, AS.