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on 4/30/02 8:13 PM, Alexander Browne at alexbrowne@hidden.email wrote: > > I was ambiguous to the point of falsehood: I meant that I don't like > Esperanto's (as I understand it) use of *only* the opposite making > word for even the most basic concepts (e.g. big and small). Such a > word is still useful, though, if only for greater choice. Ah, Good. Esperanto seems to try to have only mal- opposites, but doesn't always. right and left are dekstra and maldekstra, but east and west are oriente and okcidente > > I quite like the bel/ble idea, again as a convention, not a rule. This > could be used for common words, and other vocab can just have > opposites that are unrelated and formed with the 'un-' equiv. Yes, I'm led to want to back up and make sure that most common words have reverse opposites. It's good for memory and terseness. > -- >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/