colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-27 days agoWhy don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?message-squaremessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-27 days agomessage-square94linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up48·edit-27 days agoWhy do we have 2 separate words for good and bad? Good and ungood are totally sufficient. (reference)
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 days agoThat’s actually how it works in Irish. The word for good is deas, while the word for bad is deas prefixed with the negating particle mí, so mídheas. (There are still separate words for tge cardinal directions).
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoIs it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”
minus-squarePlexSheep@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoThe complement of good, u good, I cludes things that are neither good not bad (neutral)
Why do we have 2 separate words for good and bad? Good and ungood are totally sufficient.
(reference)
That’s actually how it works in Irish. The word for good is deas, while the word for bad is deas prefixed with the negating particle mí, so mídheas.
(There are still separate words for tge cardinal directions).
Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn’t list mídheas as a word and “deas” was defined as right/nice/honest, not just “good”
The complement of good, u good, I cludes things that are neither good not bad (neutral)