Re: [lojban] Polar Opposites and Agentives

[david demartin <davidandresloquehay@gmail.com>]

my guess is that the 6 or so languages used to find common words as base for gismu had all distinct terms for fast/slow... (as opposed to fast/non-fast).
...and we might indeed want to make THAT kind of a difference between killing and dying for example... a little bit like we want to distinguish between "making love" and "raping": although one is just a slight variation of the other, we kind of WANT to consider them different things altogether (as to assign them very different terms).

dyabudy

2011/12/25 tsani nicte <nictytan@gmail.com>

How come the gimste has somtimes a different gismu that's simply defined as the polar opposite of another? Why not just use to'e?

The example that comes to mind is: sutra vs masno

Conversely, I once saw a like of gismu that had both agentive and non-agentive versions. Why not just use -gau lujvo?

The example that comes to mind is: catra vs morsi

mu'o mi'e tan

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