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From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson)
Subject: Re: Naturalismo e schematicismo, un problema in linguas auxiliar
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In article <850668804snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>,
Phil Hunt <phil@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <brgE2FKnF.3Du@netcom.com> brg@netcom.com "Bruce R. Gilson" writes:
>>In article <850602436snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>,
>>Phil Hunt <phil@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>Porbably. Better still, it wouldn't use -itate anyway. Consider
>>>
>>>English      -ity
>>>French       -it'e
>>>Spanish      -idad
>>>Portuguese   -idade
>>>Italian      -it`a
>>>German       -it"at
>>>
>>>Interlingua  -itate
>>>Eurolang     -iti
>>>Esperanto    -eco
>>>Ido          -eso
>>>Novial       -eso
>>>Occidental   -(i)t'a
>>>
>>>Given IL's source languages, -ita would be more recognisable. It would
>>>also have be benefit of being shorter than -itate.
>>>
>>>The suffixes that E-o, Ido and Novial use are IMO flawed as they lead
>>>to words that are less recognisable (eg libereco, libereso).
>>
>>You may be interested in knowing that -eso was one of about 3 or 4 of the
>>Novial endings we rejected. The revived Novial uses -itate.
>
>Why -itate and not -ita or -iti or -ite? What natlang uses -itate 
>(Romanian?). 
>
>-- 
>Phil Hunt
>Eurolang, a common second language for the European Union. See:
>Eurolang, comuna dua lang per la Europa Unized. Vidu:
>   <http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/eurolang.htm>
Why -itate rather than -ita? Because I need an -e ending. Remember, I am
regularizing the rule that ALL nouns end in -e (with the exceptions of -um
for certain abstract nouns, but there's a special rule for that which I'm not
going into here) unless they are gender-specific. -ita would imply femaleness
and I don't think that's appropriate. -ite (used in French) might be acceptable
but -itate is closer to the Sp. -idad and German -itaet, and Spanish + German
collectively carry more weight than French, I think.

>

                                Bruce R. Gilson
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