Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:14:07 +0100: Ruud Harmsen
<realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

12 Mar 2007 04:49:39 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

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.
Malgranda doesn't mean "not big" but "the contrary of big", i.e.
small. Cf. malvarma = cold.

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

Esperanto does. "Mal-" is the prefix for polar opposite (good/bad). "Ne-" is the prefix for negation (good/not good).
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