From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Thu Aug 03 00:25:34 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13700 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 07:25:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Aug 2000 07:25:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ho.egroups.com) (10.1.2.219) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 07:25:33 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.29] by ho.egroups.com with NNFMP; 03 Aug 2000 07:25:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 07:25:26 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives Message-ID: <8mb6p6+tbfc@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 394 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" --- In lojban@egroups.com, "Jorge Llambias" wrote: > You wouldn't say in English that the bottle contents are > still bottle contents when outside of the bottle, at least > not for long. Would you say that {se botpi} are still {se botpi}, > perhaps being the contents of the empty set? .i le botpi be lo xunre vanju se pu spofu .i .oi mi na ba pinxe le selpofbo'i .aulun.