Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

11 Mar 2007 13:32:08 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

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

Then "negative" was an inapt characterization.

I refer you to Orwell's Doublespeak.

Or perhaps to Bolinger's *Language as a Loaded Weapon*.

Negatives have "negative" connotations. That's why that's the label
for such connotations.

Please refer to some dictionaries, and see that one word usually has
many meanings. Saying one meaning is wrong because another meaning is
different is a mistake that beginners often make.
--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com


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