From phma@oltronics.net Sun Dec 03 11:58:24 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 3 Dec 2000 19:58:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 20698 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2000 19:58:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Dec 2000 19:58:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Dec 2000 19:58:20 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA09932 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:57:39 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.44, neofelis, , 207.15.133.44 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 14:57:48(EST) on December 03, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] common words Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:30:14 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012031457280E.11907@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat 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