Re: Two different opposites
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 4:07 |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:03:38 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>On the other hand, on adjectives, they are identical, making things
>absent or opposite, depending on the adjective in question. There is,
>however, a third possibility is some things, and in some, it's not even
>included into English.
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>For instance, we have 'welcome' 'unwelcome', and 'neither welcome nor
>unwelcome'. I suggest a new prefix 'en-'. For instance 'enfast' means
>'not fast', but 'unfast' means 'slow'.
And to the Zireen, there's a fourth possibility, "both welcome and
unwelcome".
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