Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA17215 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:28:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199509281828.OAA17215@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 852AC8A7 ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:26:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:31 -0600 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: Re: Many things, catching up X-To: lojban@cuvmb.bitnet To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Thu Sep 28 14:28:12 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU >4) About "The weather is hot": >(the air can be hot, my stove can be >hot, love can't be hot if you're not speaking in metaphors, preciseness >can't be hot at all; can weather be hot? ... ... Sorry. It's half past >two in the morning and my fingers lost control of my head.) No, I think you may be right. "weather" seems to be a level of abstraction above things like "air" and "stove". The "weather" literally can't be hot any more than "hotness" can be hot. I think the "temperature" can't be hot either, although we say that in English all the time. >1) About the alien: >ni'o .iicaidai ko na jgari le xance be le goi ko'a fange .imaubo tu'e ko >na pencu ko'a .ijonai do .e ko'a .e lei marce pe do'o cu spoja tu'o .i ko'a >ba'e dutmai .i .iinai pe'i lenu ko'a cu dutmai kei lenu ko'a cu zunle pritu cfipu kei mleca leka cumki zo'o