Prefixes, how and where to use negative prefixes like un-,dis,non-,etc?

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Anonymous

#154768 Thu, 03 Nov 05 02:46 PM

Hi, freak guy,

of course, there are very strict rules, but these rules are rooted in ancient LAtin, if You do not know Latin, then You can claim there are no rules. But if You are not educated enought, You should not state such a nonsense. There are rules as to what consonants or vowels must precede to add this or that prefix. Have you ever heard of a progressive assimilation, for example? You do not seem to have, otherwise You would not ferer the poor guy to long lists of words to memorise by heart or to practical usage ONLY.

Have a nice sleep in Your den

Yours Zdenek

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Consonants, Negatives, Prefixes, Vowels

Clive

#154911 Thu, 03 Nov 05 10:58 PM

Hi Zdenek,

This last post seems to me to be a very feeble attempt to be ill-mannered and annoying. Can't you do any better than that?

Clive

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Klavier

#157834 Sat, 12 Nov 05 04:17 PM

Anonymous wrote:
Hi, freak guy,

otherwise You would not ferer the poor guy to long lists of words to memorise by heart or to practical usage ONLY.

Have a nice sleep in Your den

So, should I learn ancient roots, rules, and which consonant and vowels go here and there ? Should I burn my brain with this stuff when it comes to the prefix retro- for example, or is it more 'PRACTICAL' to learn all the words in the dictionary in this pattern? Please allow me: retroactive - retrograde - retrospect - retrospective. Oh! I think I have already learnt them.
Have a nice sleep in Your monastery.

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Consonants, Negatives, Prefixes, Vowels

Anonymous

#164750 Wed, 30 Nov 05 10:31 PM

adding a word that exist

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Anonymous

#197712 Fri, 17 Feb 06 01:36 AM

Please tell me which is more correct as the opposite act of registering something.
Is it unregister or deregister? I've looked in the online dictionaries and can't find either word.

Thanks!

Anonymous

Negatives, Prefixes

Clive

#198117 Fri, 17 Feb 06 10:10 PM

Hi,

deregister The office registered you in the wrong course, so they deregistered you. ie they removed you from the register.

unregister You come to the class but your name is not on the register. Your name has never been on the register.You are an unregistered student.

Best wishes, Clive

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Goodman

#198132 Fri, 17 Feb 06 11:06 PM

Clive wrote:

Hi Zdenek,

This last post seems to me to be a very feeble attempt to be ill-mannered and annoying. Can't you do any better than that?

Clive

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Lurking around every forum, there will always be a couple of “loose nuts”-Quoted goodman

That’s not my rule but a reality. Clive, It’s not even worth it. It’s pretty evident who is “educated” or otherwise!

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Anonymous

#216556 Sun, 16 Apr 06 08:23 PM

I see this message is very old - but I was looking for help and this address came up - so I'm hoping you can help me. I clicked on this link and found out that I was right, UNTHAW is not a word. If something is UN-thawed, it is obviously NOT thawed, thawed being a state of not frozen - if something is NOT thawed, then it has to still be frozen. HOWEVER, there is a woman at a professional site on the web who is a cook and publishes recipes, believe it or not, who uses this word, UNTHAW, in a lot of her recipes. Check out -

http://busycooks.about.com/od/quickbreads/r/blueberrymuffin.html and http://busycooks.about.com/od/turkeyrecipes/r/crockpotturkey.html

I emailed her and told her about this word and she emailed me back a link to a dictionary site.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unthaw

Apparently, this stupid dictionary site thinks UNTHAW is a word. What do I tell her? It's not even a matter of me being right. It's that she's using this word and misleading a lot of people - and looking rather ridiculous, as well. Thanks for your assistance.

Joanne

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