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Re: Two different opposites

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, January 12, 2004, 18:54
--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
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> > > > do <-> not do > > do <-> undo > >
> Where I to > concoct an aux- or loglang, I'd be including two > 'negative' markers to > distinguish precisely between abscence and opposite.
The prefixes would have to be stackable since I overloooked the obvious third kind of opposite, the double opposite: do <-> not do --absence of action do <-> undo --opposite action do <-> not undo --absence of opposite Then there's anti- consider the difference between not Christian, un-Christian, and anti-Christian. But when anti- is applied to verbs I suspect it means the same as un-. anticlose = unclose = open ?? not close = leave open not unclose = leave closed Do not unclose Pandora's box. Or does anti-close mean to prevent the closing of? Perhaps to anti-open is to lock? I anti-opened the door to keep burglers out. Give me your key so I can un-anti-open this door. Hmmm. I'm beginning to think that if I can squeeze enough milage out of prefixes, 10 or 15 verb stems will be plenty for a complete language. --gary