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Re: CONLANG Digest - 1 Nov 2000

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, November 6, 2000, 23:37
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Of course, there are exceptions (I used to know a few of them but > they escape me right now.
Unfaithful, which also has the Germanic -ful Unedited Unrecorded Untelevised Unframed (at least, I think frame is non-Germanic) Unformed Uncaged Unliberated Unintelligent Unelaborated Uncomplicated In addition, using un- instead of in- sounds less odd than vice versa, in other words, "unpossible" wouldn't sound too odd, but "inbelievable" would sound very odd. Also, if I had to coin a word, I'd be more likely to use "un-" than "in-", I'd say "unlinguistic" or "uncomputerized" rather than ??"illinguistic" or *"incomputerized" But I can't think of any exceptions with in- on native roots, except, of course, when in- means "in" :-) Hmm, come to think about it, in- might not be a productive prefix, or at least, not as productive as un-. -- Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor