man and woman
貼文者: Kalantir, 2011年5月15日
訊息: 49
語言: English
Kalantir (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日上午1:11:37
RiotNrrd (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日上午1:20:51
Kalantir:... does malviro work as an alternative word for woman? Or can mal not be attached to nouns?MAL can definitely be attached to nouns. MALVIRO is sometimes used in a humorous fashion for WOMAN, but it is not a standard usage.
3rdblade (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日上午2:09:05
Kalantir:So viro means man and virino means woman. However, the prefix mal makes words into their opposites. In that case, does malviro work as an alternative word for woman? Or can mal not be attached to nouns?I've seen 'malina' a couple of times, (including at this very website) and not just by English speakers who see its similarity to the English word 'male'.
johmue (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日上午8:06:32
Kalantir:So viro means man and virino means woman. However, the prefix mal makes words into their opposites. In that case, does malviro work as an alternative word for woman? Or can mal not be attached to nouns?mal- can be attatched to nouns. It can be attatched to any word actually. However in many cases (like viro) it is not obvious what the meaning of the resulting mal-word would be.
For example "viro" means "male adult person". Applying mal- to it which attribute is to be altered? "male" or "adult"? Or even both of them? Is "malviro" to be "woman" or "child" or "boy" or "girl".
I once came across the word "malaĉeti". A beginner did not know the verb "vendi" and therefore helped himself out with "malaĉeti". It's ok to do that IMO. It's then the job of the experienced speaker to explain that there is "vendi" and "malaĉeti" is ambiguous.
ceigered (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日上午8:44:48
.Similarly, Malino sounds like it could be a man or a boy, or something far stranger (well, I guess we men are a bit odd).
I just say "viro" and "ino" personally, although I do use "virino" if I'm speaking more traiditionally, while "ino" is more "transhuman" IMHO.
RiotNrrd (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月15日下午11:40:19
Seems like a perfectly fine word to me, and adequately describes something I have done on occasion.
La gizmo rompiĝis tuj, do mi malaĉetis ĝin.
I can see how one might say that selling could also be considered the opposite of buying something, so why can't MALAĈETI mean that, too? I would hazard, because there is already a commonly used word for selling, VENDI, and that frees up MALAĈETI for the "other opposite".
Technically MALAĈETI would be a subset of VENDI, since in both cases you are exchanging something for money; VENDI very generally, MALAĈETI much more specifically.
3rdblade (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月16日上午8:23:46
ceigered:Now... what would "malvendi" mean?I believe it means 'to require (something) to be mauve.'
Cancel a sale, retreat from a venture of sorts?
Nah, just kidding. When I started out EO one of the first things I learned was that 'mal' makes something its logical opposite, and it was a plus because it meant there were fewer words to learn for vocabulary. If I heard 'malvendi' in a conversation that was not about painting the walls of a dentist's waiting room, I'd presume the person was talking about 'buy' and didn't know 'aĉeti'.
Once I used 'mallabori' in a conversation because I didn't know the word for vacation, i.e. the opposite of work. Listener looked at me a bit oddly, then said, "ah, 'ferii'.
Mustelvulpo (顯示個人資料) 2011年5月16日上午11:29:19