Re: Differences between "un" and "opposite"

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 19:51 CEST, Ray Brown wrote:

 > On Monday, April 25, 2005, at 06:54 , Gregory Gadow wrote:
 > > I was tinkering with my conlang Glörsa last night,
 > > going over old notes dealing with prefixes. I found out
 > > that, very long ago, I had started using a prefix that
 > > meant "not", similar to English's "un-." Some time
 > > latter, I introduced a prefix that meant "opposite",
 > > similar to Esperanto's "mal-." I think they both can be
 > > kept, as a way to add some subtlety, but I want to
 > > check with some of the examples I put together.
 >
 > Trouble is, IMO it will not add _subtlety_, but it could
 > add ambiguity  ;)

And, how's the weather been? -- It wasn't uncold.

I've got that in Ayeri as well: a negative mood that can be
applied to nouns as well and a suffix -(ar)ya which means
basically the same as "un-" and can be generally used to
form opposites. There are many adjectives, though, that
have own positive and negative forms.

 > http://127.0.0.1/MyWeb/Briefscript/SWwords.html

That link won't work for other people because it points to
the user's own computer, not to yours, Ray: 127.0.0.1 is
ALWAYS the IP of one's own computer. It's the same with
"localhost". Since my computer has the name "becker", I can
also access /var/www with http://becker. This is called
"loopback address".

Yours,
Carsten

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