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On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:53:21AM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > Okay. I was thinking that reversal should have some kind of relationship to > place structure. I think you're right that it should be more systematic > than I described above. But I do want it to be a sort of mnemonic rather > than a rule to be applied. And I'm not at all sure how rigidly defined > 'opposite' ought to be, either logically or for this one purpose. Would you > regard give and receive as opposites? If so: I would regard "give" and "take" as opposites, and "give" and "recieve" as reversal of places. That's the important distinction. I somewhat like the idea of reversing letters to form words that are opposites (in the cases where the opposite is important enough to have its own root word). But _every_ predicate can be used with its places reordered. -- Rob Speer