George Boeree | Re: Simplifying affixes

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: Re: Simplifying affixes
• Data: 2005-11-12 17:29
• Mesaje: 1814 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "activeselective" Hi, AS!

Actually, we already have a pretty standard list, which you can find
on the wiki.  Some comments below...

On Nov 12, 2005, at 3:13 AM, activeselective wrote:

In our simplified vocabulary, shouldn't we have a list of standard
affixes in LFN for the various affixes in other languages?

| prefix meaning "not"
| a- (ahistorique / unhistorical)
| an- (anarchy)
| un- (unusual)
| non- (nonsense)

We have, as a standard, non-.  For technical terms, a-/an- are available.

| anti- (antifascism)
| contra- (contraproductive)
| counter- (counterstrike)

Contra- and anti- are both used, anti- for techical terms derived from
the Greek.

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)

For these, we have es- and estra-

= 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).

Yup.  Crea means to create and creation;  Simpli means to simplify and
simplification.