Re: [lojban] common words

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> That is as it should be.  When there is a scale bounded by zero
> at one end and unbounded at the other, 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'?

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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