Grapevine: Word natures

You may have come across this dispute over the word
“antidisestablishmentarian”.
Some guys like such knacks, but I don’t necessarily go for many fixes.

Alice here. I’ll be telling about word fixes: af-fixes, pre-fixes, suf-fixes, or in-fixes.

A prefix goes before the word. An infix goes into the word, and a suffix goes after the word.

For example, Bob says we’re all our pre-rebel developmental stage, we’re not even 14, when people usually begin questioning everything or most of the life’s matters, unless they have done it before, as John on some song he recently came across over the Internet.

It was as if the guy believed there could be one love for everyone to feel. John said he’d never condescend to such total-it-arian-ism on emotion. He checked out and found Johnny Cash singing it, but that was different, more like a parlor, and the other fella sounded like a message.

Well, this anti-dis-establish-ment-arian thing has some fixes that cancel each other: both “anti-” and “dis-” are fixes that deny. To put them together, you are kind of saying no-no-yes.

More, the word to e-stabl-ish is a verb. If we add “-ment”, we get a noun. When we add “-arian”, we make an adjective. “Anti-“ goes mostly with nouns or adjectives, but a “dis-“ or “un-“ would go with verbs, and the thing is sort of double-negated.

Dis-establishmentarian people would be as the ■flower power or ■hippie guys, whose alternative lifestyles in-volv-ed little or no cap-abil-ity for finance. We are con-sider-ate abut our developmental stages, so we have looked around for prospects, and disestablishment is not our choice. We do not know altru-ist crayon producers, or self-less bakers, and actually, money is good gumpt-ion.

We are only pre-rebel, so you could say we don’t know about rebel yet, but we’re sure we don’t plan rebelling against good ideas. Well, and if you wanted to say we’re anti-dis-establishmentarian, the thing would be boiling down to establishmentarian.

Double negation is not a good knack, though you may get double negative in some languages. They do their negative double and it feels just the same as the negative does in English, but double negation would be a whole another lot to them as well.

Back to ■the establishment, it has gained some bad connotation over time, but the thing has been about ■abuse of power rather than trouble haing good standards for currency, living, and democracy. I guess there was abuse of power among cave people or ■nomads too, so I wouldn’t give up on a good idea just because some of a bad past habit kicked in. Democracy is a good idea. Language standard is a good idea. Try some logic here.