Re: Weird little color system

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From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Weird little color system


> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:19:56 +0200, Philip Newton
> <philip.newton@...> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 01:15:53 -0400, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
> > wrote:
> >> The word _conner_ carries on the Dublex tradition of turning the tables
> >> (the
> >> word for "left" is core but "right" is derived).
> >
> > You mean sort of like in Spanish? (Only there, "right" is a native
> > word while "left" is borrowed... which is not quite the same as the
> > distinction core vs derived.)
> >
> > Hm, maybe more like in Esperanto - dekstren "to the right" vs.
> > maldekstren "to the left".
>
> I think the point was that in the languages everyone is familiar with, if
> one is derived from the other, it'll be "left" derived from "right",
> rather than dublex-wise.
>
>
There's also the way solresol handles the opposites: one is the reverse
spelling of the other.
In solresol left is fafalare and right is relafafa. There's a clear relation
between the two words, but which one is core and which one derived?

Jean-François