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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