From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 26 08:30:20 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FNY7s-0001cR-Cs for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:30:00 -0800 Received: from h-66-134-26-207.nycmny83.covad.net ([66.134.26.207] helo=pi.meson.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FNY7m-0001cG-1W for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:30:00 -0800 Received: (qmail 5669 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2006 16:29:47 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2006 16:29:47 -0000 Message-ID: <4426C17A.3010605@kli.org> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:29:46 -0500 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "OPPOSITE" References: <2ad.762bd6.31581763@wmconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <2ad.762bd6.31581763@wmconnect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11249 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/26/2006 4:22:00 AM Central Standard Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > >> Ok, but a claim that there are other reasons is not >> as convincing as the reasons themselves might >> eventually be. I am not saying that OPPOSITE >> has to be a prime, all I'm saying is that it is odd >> that they wouldn't have it as a prime, given that >> it's so productive. (And also given that I can't >> imagine what it's paraphrase in terms of the >> given primes might be.) > > > > It seems that "NOT" would provide the meaning of "OPPOSITE". > "Not" is not the same as "opposite." "not good" doesn't mean "evil" or "bad", and "not hot" doesn't mean "cold." Esperantists deal with this all the time, since their prefix for opposite, "mal-", is very productive, and they also use the "not" prefix a lot. ~mark To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.