Subject: Re: [lojban] common words

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:30:14 -0500

On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>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'?

That means "truth" - "memory" is "mnémosuné". But I have seen God described as
"apseudés".

phma