From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun Mar 26 08:31:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 12323 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2006 16:31:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m35.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2006 16:31:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2006 16:31:34 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FNY9K-0001ek-Qp for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:31:30 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FNY8K-0001d0-Up; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:30:30 -0800 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 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: "Mark E. Shoulson" From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Reply-To: mark@kli.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "OPPOSITE" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=58eao4DFKt0RNNoab44nMwkgU4NNZ-gfb6Uxz38g7VFvEQv6Kg X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25659 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.