On Sep 14, 3:02 pm, Kathryn Huxtable    
   wrote:   
   > On 2010-09-14 14:34:48 -0500, Joseph DeMartino said:   
   >   
   > > On Sep 14, 3:20 pm, Dan Dassow  wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Therefore, "Holy Roman Empire" and similar phrases would be an auto-   
   > >> antonymic phrase or a contranymic phrase.   
   >   
   > > All of a sudden "duggy" is starting to look like a pretty good   
   > > candidate...  ;-)   
   >   
   > > Joe   
   >   
   > Except that "Holy Roman Empire" wasn't particularly unholy, at least   
   > not compared to other institutions of the time. It was anti-Roman, nor   
   > anti-imperial, either. It's just not any of those things.   
   >   
   > -K   
   Kathryn,   
   I  believe you just provide a counter example to the Sapir-Whorf   
   hypothesis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity ). ;-)   
   http://www.onelook.com/?w=orthogonal&ls=a   
   adjective:  not pertinent to the matter under consideration   
   By extension, an auto-orthogonal phrase would be a phrase that is not   
   pertinent to the matter under consideration nor does it reflect the   
   meaning of the constituent words within the phrase.   
   Dan Dassow   
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