Hi!
Just catching up on my reading after a holiday ...
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Taka Tunu <takatunu@...> wrote:
>
> Why not consider that any root word is a potential, valid "derivational
affix"?
> See Chinese,Japanese, Khmer lexicons. Indonesian uses both a very small
set of
> affixes and loads of compounds. The so-called "power" of affixes is their
> fuzziness. For instance "invention" is either an process or a result.
Affixing
> and compounding are different in the sense that affixing requires making a
whole
> kind of lame second lexicon. With compounds, "Esthetics" may be more
evocative
> "beauty feeling", "beauty yearning", "beauty concept", etc.
>
> Other posts give lists of material. I have a list of 1450 Tunu concepts
that I
> made by criss-crossing the kanjis and the words I encountered most often
when
> translating languages. ...
I'd be very interested to see this list! As a person
who loves both language and philosophy, I find any
lexicon of root concepts worth study, even meditation ...
Can you provide me with a link to it?
Regards,
Yahya
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