Who says procrastination is a bad thing? It has the English prefix “pro-,” which usually connotes a good thing. We didn’t call it “concrastination” for a reason!<\/p>\n
In Esperanto, we have the English cognate verb “prokrasti<\/strong>,” which means “to procrastinate.” (Don’t bother trying to break “prokrasti” into various parts – there is no word “krasti” yet, even if “pro-” is a valid Esperanto prefix.) For native English speakers, the use of “prokrasti” makes sense to us intuitively. But, for someone as lazy as myself, who considers procrastination a necessary part of life, I wonder if we could make an Esperanto word that means the same thing as “prokrasti” (to put off), but conveys all the “positive” aspects of the English verb.<\/p>\n So far, I’ve come up with these two possibilities:<\/p>\n “Bonatendi” – combining the adjective “bona<\/strong>,” meaning “good,” and the verb “atendi<\/strong>,” meaning “to wait.”<\/p>\n “Bonmalfruigxi” – here we have “bona” again, coupled with “fruigxi<\/strong>” (to become late, roughly), and the opposite-inducing “mal<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n How would you think to express the good side of procrastination?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who says procrastination is a bad thing? It has the English prefix “pro-,” which usually connotes a good thing. We didn’t call it “concrastination” for a reason! In Esperanto, we have the English cognate verb “prokrasti,” which means “to procrastinate.” (Don’t bother trying to break “prokrasti” into various parts – there is no word “krasti”…<\/p>\n