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From: todds@orca.UUCP (Todd Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.puzzle
Subject: Re: words and their opposites
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 18:46:29 EDT
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> From: training@rtech.ARPA (Training account)
> Subject: Re: words and their opposites
> Date: 14 May 85 15:10:06 GMT
> > 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

Doesn't the UP imply that the house was consumed by the fire, while
the DOWN implies that the house was leveled (razed, given 0 height (-:
).  I suspect that the distinction is similar for the tree-chopping
example.

                                        Dave
                                        "ice on vax bang dps"
                                        Friday, 5.17

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