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Re: [lojban] common words



In a message dated 12/3/2000 1:33:34 PM Central Standard Time, cowan@ccil.org
writes, replying to ivan:


>natlangs often form the
> negative term (low degree) by negating the positive one (high
> degree), and use the positive one as default.  The opposite is
> either not attested at all or extremely rare.

How about Greek "aletheia", "un-forgetting", for 'memory'?

But doesn’t aletheia mean“truth,” rather than “memory” and come from
lanthanein “to go unnoticed” So coming out as “what is obvious”  Stilla
case for your point,perhaps.