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Re: Weird little color system

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Friday, August 6, 2004, 6:19
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". Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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