From cowan@ccil.org Tue Nov 25 05:53:12 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71841 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2003 13:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Nov 2003 13:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2003 13:53:10 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOdcr-0007sj-00; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:53:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:53:08 -0500 To: Bob LeChevalier Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical? Message-ID: <20031125135308.GG18123@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20031124184727.33947.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> <20031124180229.GR9729@digitalkingdom.org> <20031124184727.33947.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031125064934.040179c0@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031125064934.040179c0@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Originating-IP: 192.190.237.100 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21255 Bob LeChevalier scripsit: > Thus in English, relevance is not perfectly symmetric, though I > would have trouble characterizing the asymmetry. As Master Sorcerer Seamus O Lochlainn points out in the Randall Garrett mystery _Too Many Magicians_, it's not relevant to a gun which bullets it has fired, as the wear on a gun is primarily mechanical; but it is very relevant to a bullet which gun fired it -- a point extremely important to forensic ballistics whether thaumaturgical or not. -- "While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from John Cowan the Candensian plane, which is very much like jcowan@reutershealth.com ours, only more of it consists of Toronto." http://:www.ccil.org/~cowan --the unnamed narrator of Le Guin's _Changing Planes_