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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Origin of un-- Jackie #202844 10/18/11 03:09 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 132 G goofy member goofy member G Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 132 I don't understand why it's a big deal that a word with a negative prefix can have a positive meaning. After all, words referring to bad qualities can be negated too. Anyway, grammatical negation isn't a bad or undesirable thing, it's just negation. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Origin of un-- Jackie 10/12/11 02:49 AM Re: Origin of un-- BranShea 10/14/11 08:01 AM Re: Origin of un-- Jackie 10/15/11 03:45 AM Re: Origin of un-- BranShea 10/15/11 02:22 PM Re: Origin of un-- goofy 10/15/11 06:38 PM Re: Origin of un-- BranShea 10/17/11 02:39 PM Re: Origin of un-- Jackie 10/18/11 01:53 AM Re: Origin of un-- Faldage 10/14/11 09:44 AM Re: Origin of un-- goofy 10/18/11 03:09 AM Re: Origin of un-- BranShea 10/18/11 05:17 AM Re: Origin of un-- Faldage 10/18/11 10:42 AM Re: Origin of un-- goofy 10/18/11 08:03 PM Re: Origin of un-- olly 10/18/11 09:22 PM Re: Origin of un-- Faldage 10/18/11 11:12 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,009 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 736 guests, and 4 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 14 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,968 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,956 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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