From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 28 05:59:32 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MVmHD-0007ZM-FF for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:59:31 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MVmHA-0007YP-1J for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:59:31 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090728125921298.UPJX5845@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:59:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF589AFB6 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:59:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: elliptical sentences Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:59:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <200907280045.44937.phma@phma.optus.nu> <96f789a60907280533n45388b3dg4d9e7596e5c1e541@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96f789a60907280533n45388b3dg4d9e7596e5c1e541@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907280859.09514.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 15818 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tuesday 28 July 2009 08:33:56 Michael Turniansky wrote: > Huh? Am I missing something here? What's elliptical about it? > --gejyspa The complete statement would be "The genes for seeing red and green are on the X chromosome; the gene for seeing blue is on the 7th chromosome". The gene for seeing red isn't red, so calling it "lo xunre" isn't literally right. Do I have to say at least "lo xunre co'e"? Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.