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Re: [ceqli] Answers

In a message dated 1/11/2008 10:28:19 AM Central Standard Time, rmay@hidden.email writes:


Seym is 'same'.  Well, to reverse that you have to do all the vowels, so 'different'
would be 'smye'.  We also have 'ger' meaning 'other', which might be redundant with 'smye'.


I think they should have different words.  
Even if the same word is used for both, it will be used differently for each meaning, since the two meanings are not always (ever?) synonymous.
"THE SAME" and "OTHER" are both semantic primes in NSM.
Two things might be different (opposite of identical), but they won't be the same object.  E.g., "You choose one, I'll take the other."
Two things might be identical, but one will be the other one.

stevo