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andogigi (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 00:01:00
RiotNrrd (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 00:55:03
adrideo (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 03:41:48
darkweasel (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 05:16:03
Miland (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 11:18:35
andogigi:I noticed that Benson defines optimism as "optimismo", but .. Would optimismulo be acceptable, as well?In my opinion, yes.
Roberto12 (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 11:50:29
darkweasel:(actually, why don't these forums have a better search feature?)Good question!
andogigi (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 12:07:55
adrideo:Hmmmm. I wonder if it is so that they match the way words that have the Esperanto suffix "ism" behave. In those cases the doctrine is ______-ismo and the person who supports that doctrine is (often) a ______-isto.I had considered this, as well. The problem is that the -ismo words usually derive their meaning from the root.
Darkweasel's example of komunismo/komunisto makes sense since the meaning could be derived from komuna. I don't think there is an "optim-" root and I'm not 100% if optimism could be honestly considered a belief system. That kinda had me confused. I guess I'll just accept the Bertilow explanation somebody posted on the other thread.
This search gave me another word I'm not sure about... Benson lists "activism" as "aktivismo", but claims that an activist is an "aktivulo" which also doesn't make sense to me. I'm assuming there is no such thing as an "aktivisto" since, I guess, there is no way for anyone to "aktivi", but there are people who are "aktiva". Still, I would have assumed an aktivulo was somebody who went to the gym alot.
darkweasel (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 12:23:16
andogigi:I guess, there is no way for anyone to "aktivi", but there are people who are "aktiva".You can derive verbs from adjectival roots such as AKTIV/. Such verbs have the meaning "to be xy". Thus, aktivi means "to be active".
ceigered (Profiel tonen) 16 april 2010 14:28:25
).(My logic for optimismo is that it is the belief in or wanting for the optimum. An optimisto is a person who's interest is the optimum. Optimulo however makes more logical sense, unless we're talking about a heavily optimistic person who leverages it as their defining characteristic (but the habit is to associate "isto" with "ismo" so it doesn't really matter too much). But still with no "optimo" it doesn't really work too well anyway).
Maybe "optimismo" could be better rendered as "plejbonismo"? "The very best-ism"?
darkweasel (Profiel tonen) 24 april 2010 08:45:26
ceigered:But still with no "optimo" it doesn't really work too well anywayAs there's no such root, you have to see these as unanalysable roots OPTIMISM/ and OPTIMIST/.
ceigered:Maybe "optimismo" could be better rendered as "plejbonismo"? "The very best-ism"?This would surely be a good SSV-ish term.
