From cowan@ccil.org Mon Apr 28 18:56:21 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 29 Apr 2003 01:56:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 97439 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AKLv-0005G7-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:56:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:56:15 -0400 To: Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llamb=EDas?= Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb Message-ID: <20030429015615.GE12348@ccil.org> References: <20030428203758.GA99775@allusion.net> <20030428210644.20605.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030428210644.20605.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > But it _is_ a word that makes sense used anywhere: it changes the > previous word into an opposite. Isn't that how it works now, No. It changes some words into their opposites; for others, it induces contradictory negation, and for most lexical classes it means nothing at all. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus."