Talk:-testosterone

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RFD discussion: December 2020–January 2021

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Why do we have a suffix when testosterone (noun) is a perfectly suitable morpheme? Is there some chemical subtlety that justifies a difference? DCDuring (talk) 03:24, 23 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

I could be completely wrong, but @陳弈豪 has a user name that suggests their native language is Chinese. The Chinese writing system developed at a time when the language had pretty much nothing in the way of affixes and not very much in the way of compounding, so they may not have a very good grasp of the difference between affixes, elements in compounds, and separate words in phrases. It's sort of like someone who's colorblind assembling a kit with color-coded parts. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:59, 23 December 2020 (UTC)Reply