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- URL: https://x.com/rygorous/status/1117863535684362241
- Author: Fabian Giesen (@rygorous)
- Posted: 2019-04-15 18:53:30
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1/ @rygorous
A Modest Proposal to Simplify and Shorten English Text By Cancelling Opposite-Sign Prefixes:
inexplicable -> plicable
preposterous -> erous
extinguish -> guish
outing -> g
2/ @mike_acton
@rygorous
And adjectival suffixes as unnecessary.
plicable -> plic
erous -> er
3/ @TheGingerBill
@mike_acton @rygorous
The adjective suffix and formative noun suffix are not needed either:
plic -> pl
er ->
4/ @mike_acton
@TheGingerBill @rygorous
pl is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pel- and we do not need to wrap something that is “not-un-wrappable”, as it’s clear from context that it is in fact, not being un-wrapped:
pl ->