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,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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