From cowan@ccil.org Sun Dec 03 11:24:39 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 3 Dec 2000 19:24:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 36812 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2000 19:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Dec 2000 19:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Dec 2000 20:25:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11018; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:46:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:46:56 -0500 (EST) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] common words In-Reply-To: <3A2A18BB.9F4E5880@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan 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'? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter