Re: Two different opposites (again)

There is also the "inverse" relation:

to buy <--> to sell

to teach <--> to learn (the same word, "apprendre",
can be used in French, although there is also
"enseigner" fo "to teach")
etc.


--- Carsten Becker <post@...> 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.
>
> --Carsten

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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