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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now, as to Escape's contention that such kind of phonemic ambiguity in words
> of potentially disastrous confusion (i.e., opposite words in the same scale)
> doesn't exist in natural languages, I WILL challenge that assertion.
> <facetiousness> Really?  Have you studied all the scales in all of the
> world's many thousands of languages?  You impress me!  </facetiousness> I
> haven't found any yet, but I can't dismiss the possibility it exists in a
> natlang...

How about "can" vs "can't" in English? The difference between them can
be rather minimal.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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