Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

On Mar 12, 8:14 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
12 Mar 2007 04:49:39 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@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.

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