Re: Wiktionary, general thoughts
Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia-Sadi0fl/VCj2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>
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[Replies should go to <[email protected]>.] Timwi wrote in part: >Imran Ghory wrote: >>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