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Re: Non-polairty

From:Joseph Bridwell <darkmoonman@...>
Date:Monday, July 4, 2005, 16:16
> What strikes me as interesting is that for many > of these polar concepts, there is no good word > (at least in Engl.) for the mid-point.
English has a lot of lexical gaps.
> For instance, rather than tepid (which is slightly > pejorative in Engl.), perhaps better would be "just > right for the object involved" ???
Yes.
> All in all, an interesting approach.
I was disappointed that I got no responses from asking this range vs polarity issue on some Lojban lists.