From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Tue Feb 11 02:28:33 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 92 02:28 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA20612; Mon, 10 Feb 92 21:56:39 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA29545; Mon, 10 Feb 92 21:31:30 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA06588; Mon, 10 Feb 92 20:38:13 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA12398; Mon, 10 Feb 92 19:56:20 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (via uunet.UU.NET) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA24758; Mon, 10 Feb 92 19:23:08 -0500 Message-Id: <9202110023.AA24758@relay2.UU.NET> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 0633; Mon, 10 Feb 92 19:21:31 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 9683; Mon, 10 Feb 92 19:20:32 EST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 12:18:17 GMT+1200 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!chandley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Subject: RE: Tall/deep X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMA.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO Joh Cowan writes >(Whether you call something "tall" or "deep" in English is a matter >of whether you are standing at the bottom or the top of it. Latin >"altus" makes no distinction, and Lojban "condi" can mean "tall".) > My understanding is that 'tall' refers to solid things like mountains, trees, people and towers whereas 'deep' refers to holes and suchlike - such as caves, river(bed)s, holes etc. Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ