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    23 months ago

    There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        I didn’t mean contronyms.

        One example of what I mean is the word knight. It used to mean boy or servant. The German word Knecht still means (farmers) servant.

        Another is ‘nice’, which used to mean ‘simple, foolish, ignorant’.