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A discussion on the Loglan newsgroup leads me to wonder about opposites. Take young and old. We can have an 'opposite' preja to make 'un-' forms, or we could be creative about picking the basic preja in the first place. Suppose we picked a word that could be turned inside-out somehow, to make a one syllable opposite. Say 'young' is 'sjan', and we turn the N's (non-consonants) around to make 'old' 'snaj'. We'd have to pick a set of phonemes that would, like this, sound considerably different when reversed. Like the i and o endings, this will not be a rule, but a mnemonic. Comments? -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/