Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

On Mar 12, 3:36 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
11 Mar 2007 19:29:38 -0700: "mb" <azyth...@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Padraic Brown wrote:

I don't think that's the case here. There's nothing in "malsano" that
indicates "badness or evil" -- that is, no moral connotation at all.

No?
You are just confirming the rule that no Romance speaker should come
into contact with Esperanto --just to avoid getting upset.

Malsano is the word for "unhealthy", even with a "dangerous, evil"
connotation in all Romances, with the appropriate sound change where
needed.

If you deem sano morally positive, then malsano is morally negative.
That doesn't give mal a negative connotation, it's just your
interpretation of sano.

Is malgranda = small also 'dangerous, evil'?

If the language has no way of distinguishing between "small" and "not
big," then it's a pretty piss-poor language.

Hve you ever heard of *1984*, by George Orwell? It's a novel about a
dystopia, where the language "Doublespeak" is used by the government,
and the worst thing you can call something is "doubleplusungood."
There is no "bad" in the language.

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