Re: Dublex (was: Washing-machine words (was: Futurese, Chinese,

Ray:
> At 3:02 am +0100 17/5/02, And Rosta wrote:
> >Ray:
> >> >* having very many roots, but organizing them into paradigms such
> >> >  that roots with related meaning have similar forms, possibly in
> >> >  a relatively systematic way
> >>
> >> Won't that tend to create 'pseudo-morphemes' as people start imagining
> >> patterns in related similar forms?
> >
> >I don't see that as a problem. -st in 'east, west' could be called
> >a pseudo-morpheme, and likewise the -male in 'female'. Where's the
> >harm in those? Were you thinking of something different and more
> >problematic?
>
> If the "paradigms such that roots with related meaning have similar forms"
> amounts to more than the sort of examples you give, then obviously there's
> no problem.  But I thought you thinking of larger paradigms.  In truth, I
> was not clear on what precisely you were suggesting here & wanted clarity.
I wasn't thinking of anything specific. Some larger-scale examples would
be the lexicon of Ro, and the system used in Chemistry for naming
chemical compounds.

--And.