Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

* Peter T. Daniels wrote:

On Mar 11, 3:54 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11 Mar 2007 11:18:27 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"

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.

Then "negative" was an inapt characterization.

So "not" is not a negative?
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