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Re: Klingon WOTD: DuH (verb)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: DuH (verb)
• Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:57:30 EDT

In a message dated 7/13/2007 9:32:17 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> >Homonyms:
> >     DuH (noun) - possibility, option
> 
> 

> Antonyms:  {DIch} "certainty"
> 

I would not call {DIch} (certainty) an antonym (or opposite) of {DuH} 
(possibility, option).  Possibility and option represent two distinct modalities (per 
Rick Morneau in his "Lexical Semantics":  epistemic probability and deontic 
obligation.  Both have ranges from 0% to 100%, as well as an indefinite value 
meaning just "some value"; i.e., "it's possible that" or "it's obligatory 
that".  {Dich} (certainty) is the 100% value of the probability spectrum.  The 
opposite would be 0% probability , meaning 'not possible, impossible'.  Thus {DuH} 
is the indefinite value of both ranges, and the opposite would more likely be 
the 0% value ('not possible'; 'not obligatory') rather than the 100% value of 
{DIch}.

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