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on 4/30/02 2:04 PM, Alexander Browne at alexbrowne@hidden.email wrote: > I don't like the idea having an opposite-forming word (that's one of > my least favorite features of Esperanto). I think opposites should > either be two different words or two different modifications of one > root. So I like your second idea, but not your first. Of course we will have an opposite making word. I mean, there are heaps of words in English that have only oppisites made with un or some other prefix. And we'll have pairs like big/small. The question is the proportions. A little planning ahead of time can produce a lot of reverse-opposites. bel beautiful ble ugly. -- >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/