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Rex: > 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? A nice idea for some directional opposites like left:right. But most opposites have a natural polarity -- an inherently positive and an inherently negative pole. So an 'un' word makes good sense for those. --And.