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adrian_turtle ([personal profile] adrian_turtle) wrote in [personal profile] sonia 2020-11-20 04:03 pm (UTC)

I think that article is seriously stretching, to get 25 contranyms. "Fought" doesn't mean its own opposite, even though "X fought with Y" is ambiguous. (They were in the same fight, but it's not clear if they were on the same side.) The uncertainty isn't embedded in the word itself, it's in the context, like where "flipping a switch" is unclear about whether you turned it on or off.

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