----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Becker" <post@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:09 PM
Subject: Two different opposites (again)
> From: Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> <<<<<
> know <-> not know
> know <-> unknow (forget)
You forgot "not unknow".
> do <-> not do
> do <-> undo
You forgot "not undo".
> This seems more like the three points of a triangle
> than the two endpoints of a single spectrum.
> Yet in
> other cases these two different opposites really mean
> about the same thing:
> welcome <-> not welcome
> welcome <-> unwelcome
You forgot "not unwelcome".
> happy <-> not happy
> happy <-> unhappy
You forgot "not unhappy".
> >>>>
>
> This seems to be an interesting feature for a conlang. But is this
> distinction at least a little naturalistic? I'd like to include this in
> Ayeri, but I'm not sure because of my doubts. Ayeri is nearly as regular
> and unambiguous like a loglang, but nevertheless is thought to be a
spoken,
> naturally evolved language.
>
> --Carsten
>
>