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Timwi wrote in part:

Imran Ghory wrote:

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there's not much that can be done about it, becuase words in differnet langauges aren't reflective.

(Two words are possible translations of each other if their meanings have a non-zero intersection; this property *is* reflexive.)

As a mathematician, I suppose that I should jump in here and say that the word that you want here is "symmetric", not "reflexive". ^_^

-- Toby