Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoM8w-0000Pl-IV for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55:47 -0700 Received: from imr-ma04.mx.aol.com ([64.12.206.42]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoM8r-0000PD-FY for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55:46 -0700 Received: from imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (imo-ma03.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.138]) by imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8HItPCr011289 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:55:25 -0400 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.bb8.5cd3d7df (41811) for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:55:24 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:55:23 EDT Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: gusni To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_bb8.5cd3d7df.37e3e01b_boundary" X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-archive-position: 2363 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 2696 --part1_bb8.5cd3d7df.37e3e01b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/17/2009 14:46:09 Eastern Daylight Time, ivo.doko@gmail.com writes: > 2009/9/17 Arnt Richard Johansen : > > "lo navni cu ga'u gusni mi lo tubnu" doesn't work either, because in > actuality neon emits light, but in this example you are asserting that it _is_ > light. > > > Wait... what? Light is a stream of neons. Although one neon isn't what > we would usually call a "stream", it still *is* light. Neons don't > emit light, they *are* light. > Neon is the tenth chemical element, one of the noble elements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon I think you mean "photons", the particles which make up light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photons Perhaps you are thinking of neon signs. Such signs are called that, not because they give off their own light, but because they use neon gas to give off light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_sign stevo --part1_bb8.5cd3d7df.37e3e01b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a messag= e dated 9/17/2009 14:46:09 Eastern Daylight Time, ivo.doko@gmail.com write= s:


2009/9/17 Arnt Richard= Johansen <arj@nvg.org>:
> "lo navni cu ga'u gusni mi lo tubnu" doesn't work either, because= in actuality neon emits light, but in this example you are asserting that= it _is_ light.


Wait... what? Light is a stream of neons. Although one neon isn't what
we would usually call a "stream", it still *is* light. Neons don't
emit light, they *are* light.


Neon is the tenth chemical element, one of the noble elements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon

I think you mean "photons", the particles which make up light.=20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photons

Perhaps you are thinking of neon signs. Such signs are called that, no= t because they give off their own light, but because they use neon gas to= give off light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_sign

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