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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:14:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: [lojban] How odd.
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From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>

At 08:58 PM 02/22/2001 -0500, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>I notice that citno has no antonym. Seems odd.

It did. When we created the gismu list we considered the antonym to be a 
special case of slabu. Others have argued that this approach is malglico, 
and have used to'ercitno for the antonym. Usage has pretty much carried 
the day for that viewpoint.

lojbab
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