> En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
>
>
> >I think that there might be another dual: the case
> of
> >two complementary concepts (man / woman, day /
> night,
> >yin / yang...). There are two of them, but they are
> >not alike (can even be contradictory), and put
> >together they form a system (which is not the case
> for
> >hands: one could do with one hand only). This is
> not
> >polarity.
>
> Actually, it's just a natural pairs too. Although
> one *can* do with one
> hand only, you usually expect everyone to have a
> left hand and a right
> hand, just like you expect them to have two eyes and
> two ears. "day and
> night", "man and woman", etc... are just natural
> pair too (and IIRC in
> Maggel the words for "couple", "day" - as in the
> 24-hour period, not the
> lighted period only - are in the dual).
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
>
>
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted
> conlang.
>