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"Positive" and "negative" affixes.

MOE coordinator sent me an email as follows: "One of my colleagues came across an article online on words or phrases that have only negative connotations, such as disgruntled, disheveled and deranged," and asked if I would be interested in writing an article on the subject. Even before the suspicion I had long thought about the very subject and I was wondering if it would be of no interest. Heck! Whatever. So the next pitch.

To begin, I would like to word construction in perspective.A word can be built - here I put a full stop to separate the elements forming the word - as follows: (1) combination of existing words to form a new word, for example cease.fire, god.send, show. down, (2) linking combining shapes or words stems (psycho.logy, the Greek psyche, "breath, soul, mind" + logos "word, reason, discourse"), (3) the adding a prefix or prefixes to an existing word (in.com) or a word-stem or combining form (pre.dict, from the Latin prae, but pre-combined "before" + dicere, saying "say") and (4) affixing the suffix or suffixes, of an existing word (like.ly) or a word-stem or combining form (cordi.al, from the Latin cor, Cordes-"heart" +-al ").

Table 1 lists some of the affixes that have a negative connotation or private, with examples of words formed with it and Table 2 lists the affixes with the opposite connotation.

The words and their opposites

There are several ways that words - whether they are nouns, adjectives, verbs, or - with positive and negative meanings can occur. These include: (1) using different words, for example, full / empty, functional / deceased, presence / absence, accept / reject, active / passive, awake / asleep (2) the affixing of a prefix to an existing word, for example to / from the UN to do, to interpret / MIS interpret, start / DIS board, (3) affixing different suffixes for an existing word, egworthy / worthless, (4) adding different prefixes for the same stem word or combination of form, for example

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