Re: Two different opposites (again)

Carsten Becker wrote:

>From:    Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
><<<<<
>know <-> not know
>know <-> unknow (forget)
>do <-> not do
>do <-> 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
>happy <-> not happy
>happy <-> 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.
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This looks like trying to address as a 3-way distinction what is actually
a 4-way distinction between positive, negative, opposite, and complement,
a distinction addressed ad nauseum in Ithkuil...

John Q.