From phma@webjockey.net Wed Dec 04 19:04:00 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 5 Dec 2002 03:04:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 92686 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 03:03:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Dec 2002 03:03:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 03:03:59 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id D69673C48C; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:03:50 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com (lojban) Subject: Re: [lojban] response to And Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:03:48 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200212041952.OAA24256@mail2.reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <200212041952.OAA24256@mail2.reutershealth.com> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02120422034808.01986@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:37, John Cowan wrote: > And Rosta scripsit: > > Is the sentence "This teddy is a cribe" 100% true? Not if cribe > > means 'bear'. > > Well, in fact I find the sentence "This teddy is a bear" perfectly > reasonable and am quite ready to believe it. To me, bears are categorized > as the brown/grizzly, the American black, the polar, the panda, and the > stuffed. And perhaps other categories, and indeed Irene's Larry is +stuffed > +polar. So for me "la laris. pe la .airin. cribe" is true. What about the covalent and rectangular bears? phma