Message-Id: <199710030144.UAA19537@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Date: Thu Oct 2 20:44:04 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: "Nearly Correct" (was New thread, anyone?) X-To: lojban To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 683 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Oct 2 20:44:04 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU cu'u la lojbab >Book, Chapter 5 Section 15 (symmetric tanru examples) of which the last two >types I think fill the bill of counterexamples. But those are not Lojban examples! They're examples of how tanru-like things work in other languages, but not of real Lojban tanru. I think I have read most of the Lojban text that has been written, and I don't remember ever coming across something like xrula tricu (flower tree) used to mean "vegetation" or anything like that. >Note that I am not necessarily disagreeimng with you as to which it should be. >merely trying to make sure the question is fully explored. I guess that we need someone who disagrees then. :) co'o mi'e xorxes