[HKH2]

In Chinese, if you just put 'big' and 'small' together, you get 'size', and if you just put 'big' and 'not big' together, it means 'Is it big?'. By the same token, juxtaposed memories are questions or suggestions. I think it's the logic before logic.

[bondarchuk]

That's a really interesting tidbit about Chinese. Can't think of anything similar in any language I know, though. Does remind me of those primitive languages where the word for "forest" is just the word for "tree" repeated two or three times.

[HKH2]

> Does remind me of those primitive languages where the word for "forest" is just the word for "tree" repeated two or three times.

Come to think of it, Chinese does that too: 'forest' is '森林'.

[HKH2]

In English, we have 'oxymoron', and 'chiaroscuro' from Italian, but Chinese has a lot of words with contrasts, the yin and yang etc.