Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:51:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712081851.NAA15946@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Robin Turner Sender: Lojban list From: Robin Turner Subject: flowers (was: "beginner's question") X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 477 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 8 13:51:19 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Another thought on the "all women are flowers" saying. Could I avoid metaphor altogether by saying le piro ninmu cu simsa le xrula [zo'e] ? (here I use "le" not "lo", but that just follows my views on markedness) This is more prosaic, but has the advantage that it has an obvious truth-value, and thus invites the retort la'edi'u na drani or cu simsa ko'a ma Robin Turner Bilkent Universitesi, IDMYO, Ankara, Turkey.