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Before we get too deep into 'opposites', does anyone know what the rationale was in changing Loglan 2-placers with the meaning x1 is greener, bigger, smarter) than x2, to one-placers in Lojban? I ask because a Ceqli 'opposite' is mainly going to be equivalent to 'berX', or maybe 'cerX' if it's a handier word. And if Ceqli 'cnel' means 'is faster than' then 'bercnel' means 'is slower than,' and we can reverse that int 'clen'. This cuts down on syllables without requiring everybody to learn a gob of new roots. Caveat here is that reversed words must sound substantially different than the original, so it's better if they contain weaks and semivowels. When everybody gets around to explaining modals to me, they might work the same way. That is, ploj = x1 uses x2 to do x3 berploj = x2 is used by x1 to do x3 and reverse that to pjol so to pjol is 'tool', and maybe 'ho pjol' is the instrumental preposition. -- >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/