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On 1/28/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
> We need to get this jin/pro thing figured out before we go any further. I
> may be trying to be too Chinesey about word-building. Esperanto has several
> suffixes that djin and pro cover so far in Tceqli. (let's make it djin, as I
> think it's not going to be all that frequent a suffix after all)
<snip ... re: djin, pro, zer, del, tcel...>
> -ist an individual professionally or avocationally occupied with the
> idea or activity defined by the root.
> This is what we've been using pro for, mostly, but as it does have a primary
> meaning of 'professional', I'm inclined to pick a closer analog of 'isto'.
......
> Now we're left with -ist. We can certainly say hilpro if we like. A
> health professional, or doctor. But we could go back to a previous idea,
> zer, with that Eo meaning "an individual professionally or avocationally
> occupied with the idea or activity defined by the root".
You could have "pro" signify a professional isto,
& some other word ("zer"?) for someone
avocationally involved with something.
> Is this making any sense, or am I overcomplicating it?
That all sounds more coherent now.
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Jim Henry
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