> > > If you split the word "prefix" up in its prefix and its root, you realize how well designed this word is: What better to call something that you stick (fix) before a word?
> >
> > Then again, 'postfix' does not work like this...
> >
> > Trav"fixage? fixette? fixification?"holt
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> Once again, I click "Post Message" too soon... I forgot that the point was to *explain* the postfix as well as use it... Which it won't, no matter how you do it. I think. I dunno. Maybe someone more English-savvy knows.
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> Trav"confoosed"holt

You are saying that postfix is slightly less perfectly 'designed' than prefix, or?

jul"you could always use "appendage" if you don't like it"ian