Katya O. wrote:Explain to me the difference between the adjectives with the suffic -al and without it, please. For example:
logic - logical
Logic is obsolete as an adjective. The most recent usage given in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the 16th century.
Where current forms with and without
-al exist, there's usually some difference in meaning, but it's not one you can make easy generalisations about.
For instance,
historical is the usual adjective for "having to do with history".
Historic has a more specific meaning, namely "historically significant". So a
historic agreement is one that marked a turning point in history. It may well still be in effect. A
historical agreement is just any agreement that existed in the past.
By contrast,
classic has a more general meaning than
classical. The latter generally refers to specific periods in the history of the arts (e.g. the
18th and 19th centuries for music,
Greek and Roman times for sculpture, literature, etc.)
If you have other pairs you're curious about, I can try to explain them.
Katya O. wrote:P.S.: I've sent personal messages to some people on Unilang but they ignored me. Is it because of politics or because I'm stupid in English?
There could be as many different reasons as there are people. You sent me a message and I answered it.
"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons