Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

On 11 Mar 2007 11:18:27 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 11, 1:52 pm, Prai Jei <pvstowns...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joachim Pense (or somebody else of the same name) wrote

guessing:
mal = bad
san = health
ulejo - that could indeed be a sequence of suffixes.

mal- negative prefix, no connotations of badness or evil

How can "negative" _not_ have "connotations of badness or evil"? This
is supposed to be a language used by humans.

Mal- is simply a prefix that forms an antonym of the root it precedes.
No moral wossname there at all, no question of good or bad or wrong or
right.

I'm sure you knew this already, or could have looked it up with ease.

Padraic

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