[Foundation-l] Re: Wiktionary, general thoughts

Timwi timwi at gmx.net
Mon May 17 21:05:56 UTC 2004


Toby Bartels wrote:

> Timwi wrote in part:
> 
>>(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". ^_^

Yes, you're right. I always get them mixed up. Just today I did a past 
exam question, and this time I got them right. Lucky me :))

Timwi




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