Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Why not Esperanto?

Esperanto is a very good language. However, for some reason it failed to be accepted by international community. Perhaps it has all the good features but soul and spirit. It is dead and too machine oriented. Besides, it is always hard to start to learn something from scratch. Learning the resulting standard English for a native American speaker should be as easier as learning British English. In other words, we do not change the language but merely slightly correct it.

Grammar Ease #3: Antonym Prefixes

Here is a very common problem with English, even native speakers sometimes are confused.

Antonym of expensive: inexpensive
Antonym of able: unable
Antonym of possible: impossible
Antonym of advantage: disadvantage
Antonym of religious : non-religious
Antonym of virus: anti-virus

Wouldn't be life easier with a standard prefix?