Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA23572 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 07:46:19 +0200 Message-Id: <199512130546.HAA23572@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 2B921978 ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 6:46:18 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 22:40:57 -0700 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: Re: metaphor translation To: lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Content-Length: 615 Lines: 13 >>I tried to find a cmavo or a gismu for "metaphor" but came up empty. Is >>there a way I can say the concrete meaning of my metaphor flagging it as a >>metaphor so as to induce the "aha!"? Is there a way to distinguish which >>type of metaphor is being used? {pe'a}, at your service (you should have looked under "figurative"!) ____ Chris Bogart \ / http://www.quetzal.com Boulder, CO \/ cbogart@quetzal.com "Life is strange. Some people get rich, others eat shit and die. Maybe a fat man will feel his heart burst and call it beautiful." - Hunter S Thompson