Re: Weird little color system

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:19:56 +0200, Philip Newton
<philip.newton@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 01:15:53 -0400, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
> wrote:
>> The word _conner_ carries on the Dublex tradition of turning the tables
>> (the
>> word for "left" is core but "right" is derived).
>
> You mean sort of like in Spanish? (Only there, "right" is a native
> word while "left" is borrowed... which is not quite the same as the
> distinction core vs derived.)
>
> Hm, maybe more like in Esperanto - dekstren "to the right" vs.
> maldekstren "to the left".
I think the point was that in the languages everyone is familiar with, if
one is derived from the other, it'll be "left" derived from "right",
rather than dublex-wise.






Paul

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