From ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Sat Mar 6 22:45:12 2010 Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 22:35:41 GMT From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: Shades of blue To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: In message <9505251641.aa16676@punt2.demon.co.uk> cowan@locke.ccil.org writes: > la xorxes. cusku di'e > > > Your blood is extremely blue. > > > > le do ciblu cu tcerai blanu > > > > Blue mood and language are strange. They wouldn't normally be said > > to be blue in Lojban. > > Unless the listener is a crab, or a squid, or a sandworm, or some other > such organism with copper-based respiration. Your brain appears to have been on standby :-) Jorge was not commenting on the phrase "blue blood", but on the previous phrases which you omitted from your quote. -- Iain Alexander ia@stryx.demon.co.uk I.Alexander@bra0125.wins.icl.co.uk