Talk:ForbiddenList

From Ial

Ion+anthos: IMHO diminutives aren't bad. What it bad is the irregular way that some languages use to form them. If there is a simple regular way, e.g. little/big + noun for every noun, there should be no difficulty in usage.

Ion+anthos: Do you mean noun capitalization should be forbidden or should be used to mark nouns? This is a forbidden list. BTW capitalization can only mark nouns in writing. If we want to mark them in speaking we better use a short affix.

Ion+anthos: I would forbid affixes (prefixes or suffixes) which do not have any meaning by themselves, but you are probably right that in some cases they are not really needed. For instance redo means to do again, but re- does not have a meaning by itself, there is no re word. The meaning of re should be again. So, it would be better to say to do again using the word for again as a separate word, there is no need for affixes in this case.

To the first point: A simple regular way to form diminutives is o.k, I think. I was thinking about German diminutive form, which is very irregular.

To the second point: The question is: do we need the capitalization ? for marking nouns as in German ? no but with the exception of the word for "God" to mark pronouns ? no but with the exception of the pronoun referring to "God", what about geographic terms and names  ? They should have a capital letter, IMO

To the third point: In German again there are numerous affixes without meaning and are difficult to remember but for instance many prefixes in technical terminology from Greek and Latin have an unambiguous meaning e.g. Anti-, Bi-, Inter-, Mega-, Meta- and so on. I think we could create short affixes with meaning.