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A very good question. I can't think of any trick at the moment, but I'll keep pondering. All the forms you're asking about are adjectives and the real differences between the -ic and-ical forms are semantic not gramatical. (Of course some words only exist in one form or the other.) So I'm not so sure there is a trick other than knowing which word has the desired meaning. Adam --- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> wrote: > Hello! > > This has been annoying me since I joined the conlang > community (which causes me > to write so much in English): is there any "trick" > or "rule" that can help me > choosing between the suffix "-ic" and the suffix > "-ical"? For example: > historic vs. historical > economic vs. economical > mathematic vs. mathematical > botanic vs. botanical > etc. > > Could anybody enlighten me? > > (I know that this is not the most appropriate place > to ask, but on Conlang a > question like this would probably generate 50+ > off-topic responses, which I'm > sure nobody is waiting for). > > Jan > > ===== > "If you think you are too small to make a > difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a > mosquito." > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > ===== Indjindrud edjuebu ul Judas djal Tamara ad ul Fares ed ul Zara. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Fares ad ul Esdrom. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Esdrom ad ul Aram. Machu 1:3