Re: self-segregating morphemes

[Chris Handley <CHandley@GANDALF.OTAGO.AC.NZ>]

Ivan writes:

  <<...>>

> Mind you, there are better examples.  English uses a number of Latin and
>Greek morphemes which in many cases are counterparts to full English words.
>(You can think of _kilo_ as a rafsi for _thousand_ or _scop_ and
>_vid_/_vis_ as rafsi for _see_.) <<...>> None of this
>makes those languages any easier, though, let alone more logical.

Very true, but unfortunately words change meaning over time. How many people
still think that bishops have anything to do with seeing (and I do not mean
'see' as another word for 'diocese').



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