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From: pnv@homxa.UUCP (P.VERMA)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: words and their opposites
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 18:37:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 18:37:27 1985
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>> I know of some cases where something seems like it ought to be an opposite
>> but it's not.  For instance,
>> 
>> 	What's the difference between LOOSENing your shoelaces and
>> 	UNLOOSENING your shoelaces ?
>> 
>> For another example,
>> 
>> 	We chop trees DOWN and then we chop them UP !
>
>My French teacher told us that when he was teaching English in France,
>his students just couldn't understand why "THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN" means
>exactly the same thing as "THE HOUSE BURNED UP."
>
>Robert Orenstein
>Relational Technology
>
In India, the opposite of "postpone" is widely accepted to be "prepone". Even 
newspapers use this apparently correct word.  However, I have not been able to 
locate it in any dictionary.

Raghu Yadavalli
AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Holmdel,  New Jersey