Re: Wiktionary, general thoughts

Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia-Sadi0fl/VCj2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>
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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
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