Food For Thought

So, I was just sitting there, grooving on life and all, and I remembered a passage I read once in Gödel, Escher, Bach (written by the extremely competent and previously mentioned Douglas R. Hofstadter) regarding the nature of onomatopoeia. Specifically, if certain words are written like they sound, is there a precedent to create a word that means the opposite of "onomatopoeia"? Words that sound like the exact opposite of what they mean? He brings up the words "awkwardnessful" and "pentasyllabic" to illustrate his point. While not strictly onomatopoeia (I believe it has to be a "sound" word), these words describe themselves. In that case, would there be a words to describe the opposite category? "Non-self-descriptive"? If so, is "non-self-descriptive" a non-self-descriptive word or a self-descriptive word? The entire subject of antonyms raises some profound philosophical and linguistic questions. Is there an opposite for every word? Certainly not; to assume there's a word to describe the opposite of "milk" is nothing short of ludicrous. How about an antonym for every adjective? That makes sense, given that (almost) every antonym pairing are adjectives in the first place: "wet" vs. "dry"; "up" vs. "down" and so on. I say "almost" because there some nouns that have what many consider to be opposites, like "day" and "night". However, these are two arbitrary terms based on the rotation of the Earth. Are they truly "opposites"? We consider them to be so, because humans don't deal in the concrete when it serves us to deal in the abstract. "One time of the day is light, the other's dark, so they must be opposites." Who makes the final verdict on whether a word gets an antonym or not? The adjectives "hot" and "cold" are opposites, so who's to say whether the nouns based solely on their respective adjectives ("heat" and "cold") are not?

But you didn't come here for that. You came for EXPLODING SAND CASTLES... IN REVERSE!

PHEEEEEWWWWW! BOOOOOM! AWESOME! Also, I realized that using the word "competent" to describe a writer is faintly offensive.