— Internaciona Idokonfero, 23-29 Julio 2012, Dessau (Germania) —
The Esperanto suffix -id means child. From bovo (cow) we form
bovido (calf); from hundo (dog) we form hundido (puppy). Ido is
a child of Esperanto, the first of many Esperanto "reform"
projects. Ido shares much of Esperanto's vocabulary, but
replaces many Germanic and Slavic roots with their Romantic
counterparts. Nonetheless, speakers of either language can read
the other with little difficulty. As in Esperanto, antonyms can
be formed by use of the appropriate prefix. One thing that I
find intriguing about Ido is that although this sort of antonym
formation is both possible and acceptable, Ido also provides a
greater number of unique antonyms for common terms than
Esperanto does, and in many cases these antonyms are the same as
those words which you will find marked literary in an Esperanto
dictionary. In both Esperanto and Ido, adjectives end in -a. But
in Esperanto, adjectives must agree in number and case with the
nouns they qualify. An adje