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vocabulary multiplication.
Esperanto has mal- (compare bona = "good" and
malbona = "bad"),
Damin has kuri- (tjitjuu "small",
kuritjitjuu "large") and Newspeak...
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antonymic words tend to have a
different scope. For example,
instead of
malbona (bad) we may see aĉa (of poor quality) or fia (shameful), but
these are...
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prefixes and suffixes. The
opposite of bona ('good' in Esperanto) is
malbona ('ungood'), and to
intensify it one can say
malbonega ('very ungood')....
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series of
opposite words in lieu of a prefix. For example,
instead of
malbona ("bad", the
opposite of bona, "good"), Ido uses mala, or
instead of mallonga...
