From phma@oltronics.net Tue Nov 27 03:38:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 27 Nov 2001 11:38:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 55643 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 11:38:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Nov 2001 11:38:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.228) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 11:38:56 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 158DF3C538; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:23:04 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lo'e and NAhEBO Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:23:02 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <000d01c175e3$9cf34860$ea32ca3e@oemcomputer> <3C027192.1000801@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <3C027192.1000801@reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0111262323020A.03849@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Monday 26 November 2001 11:45, John Cowan wrote: > Well, I think this presupposition is just wrong: the typical American is > not the modal American -- on what scale, anyway? Height? Income? > Color of car? Rather, lo'e merkypre is an *abstract entity* that > abstracts away everything which is not typical: thus he/she has a car, > but is neither male nor female. Okay, what about these statements?: lo'e .ornitorinku no'a se jbena re sovda .i lo'e .ornitorinku cu vindu se jgalu mu'omi'e pier.