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# Nope.
as the prefix a- means without. You are confusing your prefixes.
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:18, archived)
# Well, since I was trumped by vino
let me tell you of my favourite bit of prefixing.

Anaesthetic means 'without feeling' (a- meaning 'without', -n- as it falls before a vowel and -aesthetic meaning 'feeling'). Few people realise it is etymologically connected to the word aesthetic.
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:23, archived)
# Interesting...
I'm rather fond of "fake" prefixes...they're sort of hard to explain but it's like pretending a work has a prefix when it doesn't. The only example I can think of right now is, if people can be 'annoyed,' can they just be 'noyed' if they're of ambiguous feeling towards something?
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:27, archived)
# Or being gruntled
or having gorm :)
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:28, archived)
# Hehe!
That's the stuff ;)
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:29, archived)
# Feeling plussed?
Being ruly?
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:42, archived)
# I knew
What do I win?
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:27, archived)
# More trumps.
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:33, archived)
# Hurrah!
*trumps*

Better out than in, I always say.
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Thu 16 Nov 2006, 18:46, archived)