Re: Tr: Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>
> But, in my languages, I prefer to have unrelated words for opposites.
> Like, how would you say "Well, she's not *pretty*, but she's not *ugly*
> either", if you simply used negations?
    Gladilatian has prefixes "mr" for not and "lr" for "opposite".  So:
               nr   beautiful
             mrnr   not beautiful
             lrnr   ugly
za mrnr we mrlrnr   both not beautiful and not ugly
 mrhra nr wo lrnr   neither beautiful nor ugly

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
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