Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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,

Actually, in "1984" Orwell used the words "newspeak" and "doublethink".
AFAIK, he never used the word "doublespeak".

pjk

and the worst thing you can call something is "doubleplusungood."
There is no "bad" in the language.


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