On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
Now, as to Escape's contention that such kind of phonemic ambiguity in words
of potentially disastrous confusion (i.e., opposite words in the same scale)
doesn't exist in natural languages, I WILL challenge that assertion.
<facetiousness> Really? Have you studied all the scales in all of the
world's many thousands of languages? You impress me!</facetiousness> I
haven't found any yet, but I can't dismiss the possibility it exists in a
natlang...
How about "can" vs "can't" in English? The difference between them can
be rather minimal.