Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoThe wine cave liberals go on cruisehexbear.netimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1imageThe wine cave liberals go on cruisehexbear.netLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoI’m trying to think of what the actual affix would be, and my best answer is genuinely “enentropy”
minus-squareGiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agothat would be a prefix but yeah. maybe entrope, entropate, entropize
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month ago that would be a prefix but yeah. Prefixes are a type of affix, along with suffixes (and infixes, and circumfixes, though English doesn’t have those)
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIn this case you would need two verbs: one for increase and one for decrease.
minus-squareGiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoentropate, deentropate.
I’m trying to think of what the actual affix would be, and my best answer is genuinely “enentropy”
that would be a prefix but yeah.
maybe entrope, entropate, entropize
Prefixes are a type of affix, along with suffixes (and infixes, and circumfixes, though English doesn’t have those)
neat!
In this case you would need two verbs: one for increase and one for decrease.
entropate, deentropate.