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A comment on From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Internet Era (2004).
Good examples would be the immediately preceding examples of vocabulary simplification:
> the equivalents of “good,” “better,” and “best” would come out as “good,” “gooder,” and “goodest.”
Why not "good", "a-little-better", "a-lot-better", and "goodest" ? Using three steps in such comparisons is a cultural choice.
> “black,” “gray,” and “white” could be “black,” “semi-black,” and “anti-black.”
Why not "white", "semi-white", and "anti-white" ? Using black as the base form is a cultural choice.
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Good examples would be the immediately preceding examples of vocabulary simplification:
> the equivalents of “good,” “better,” and “best” would come out as “good,” “gooder,” and “goodest.”
Why not "good", "a-little-better", "a-lot-better", and "goodest" ? Using three steps in such comparisons is a cultural choice.
> “black,” “gray,” and “white” could be “black,” “semi-black,” and “anti-black.”
Why not "white", "semi-white", and "anti-white" ? Using black as the base form is a cultural choice.