Re: CONLANG Digest - 1 Nov 2000

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-.

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