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| 25 Nov 2012 10:34 AM |
| ... it's actually not okay to add prefixes and suffixes to a word and pretend that the product is an actual word. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:36 AM |
| Repost isn't a word, then? |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:36 AM |
opinion
~Take Control and Press the Gaben~ |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:37 AM |
Reconjure = Return with law
Yes? |
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Jamocha
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:37 AM |
| That's actually how a lot of words were formed. Our language will always be changing. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:39 AM |
>Repost isn't a word, then?
There are words, then there are not words. Some words share common suffixes and prefixes, which have impact on their meaning. These words are words, however if someone adds a prefix to a base that is not meant to have a prefix, it is not a word. It is a mutant killer grammar zombie. |
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Jamocha
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:41 AM |
| Actually, in a grammar book I read, it is grammatically acceptable to pin on prefixes and suffixes to words. Repost might technically not be a word, but re-post is because it means "to post again". |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:44 AM |
It's understandable, but often you may see arguments like:
I did something I undid your doing I un-undid my doing I re-undid your undoing of my doing of the undoing of your doing
etc
un-undid is not a word. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:46 AM |
"un-undid is not a word."
i'm sure that's two prefixes in front of 'did' instead of one |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:47 AM |
| There is a difference between using one prefix and using multiple prefixes to make double negatives. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:48 AM |
| I know, I just used that as an example. It was difficult to think of one that used only one prefix, but I have seen some. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:51 AM |
Ah, here's an example:
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=82952924
"Non-straight" is not a word. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:52 AM |
how about un-straight?
i know non-linear is definitely a word |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:53 AM |
| Haha, yea, that's true. I guess you just mean when there are already words they can be replaced with. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:54 AM |
"curved is a word."
if you described a molecule with one or more lone pairs of electrons with "curved" instead of "non-linear", you wouldn't get a mark
true fact |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:55 AM |
That would be a valid point if I said nonlinear wasn't a word.
It isn't hyphenated, btw |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:57 AM |
"It isn't hyphenated, btw"
why not? |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:58 AM |
| Because it's a word without the hyphen? I don't know why these language-making people do what they do. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 10:59 AM |
Antidisestablishmentarianism.
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| 25 Nov 2012 11:00 AM |
Actually it's Newspeak.
-Unhappy -Unexciting -Nonacceptable
Get with the times, it's 1984. |
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| 25 Nov 2012 11:04 AM |
| I am inable to recomply with your pro-idiotic subrequests. |
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