On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:57:12 +0000, willemvermeer
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wrvermeer@...> wrote:
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
>wrote:
>
>Sorry guys, a few corrections:
>
>I wrote:
>
>
>> Romanian as a whole is just a shade closer to Tosk
>> (North Albanian) than to Geg (South Albanian).
>
>North and South should of course be reversed ...
>
>[I do this often. I've made a mess of articles on birchbark texts by
>exchanging left and right, for instance.]
Ah, you have that too... I wonder if there's a name for
this phenomenon: the confusion of binary categories where
the two members are of course completely opposite, but
nothing would really change of we inversed the categories
(or is it: the names for them). I always confuse left and
right, east and west, north and south, proterodynamic and
hysterodynamic... Although I usually have no trouble with
up and down, yesterday and tomorrow... Maybe because
physical law (gravity, thermodynamics) is involved in the
latter cases to help me tell them apart.
My computer broke down on Christmas day (nothing serious: a
blown power feed), but that's been fixed now. A happy 2005
to all.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...