Return-Path: <@segate.sunet.se:LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@BITMAIL.LSOFT.COM> Received: from segate.sunet.se by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0syNRL-0000ZSC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:12 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by segate.sunet.se (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id DEEC7633 ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:58:32 +0200 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 To: lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Content-Length: 841 Lines: 18 >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