[lojban] Re: Polar Opposites and Agentives

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

There are more such cases, like {zdani} and {xabju} - as I see it,
it's the same relation, only different order of arguments.

mu'o mi'e ianek

On 25 Gru, 16:00, david demartin <davidandresloque...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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).
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> dyabudy
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> 2011/12/25 tsani nicte <nicty...@gmail.com>
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > mu'o mi'e tan
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