Re: Announcement: Andreas's Conlanging Pages

John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > So, should this non-native better take the trouble to change all affices
>to
> > affixes, or just leave it as is?
>
>No, "affix", "suffix", "prefix", "infix" all take "-ixes" quite uniformly,
>so they should be fixed, especially because of the competing verb
>"suffice", 3sg "suffices", as Christophe says.
I'll change it.

>In general, it may look uneducated not to use a foreign plural, but
>it can be downright bewildering to use one where a native plural is
>normal, e.g. "Her arms swung like pendula" (recte "pendulums").
I know, but trouble is, I don't always know what fomation is normal.

                                                                   Andreas

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