dragon ilks (was: RE: My last will and testament on lo'e

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

John:
> > Giles of Putney, 1300 AD has a mental construct of the universe which 
> > actually is populated by dragons. He can potentially enumerate them. 
> > They are all evil. So as far as he's concerned, the typical dragon is 
> > evil. That dragon St George knocked off is evil, that dragon in 
> > Beowulf is evil, etc 
> > 
> > Weng Shui, 1300 AD has a different mental construct: still populated 
> > by dragons, but they are mostly benevolent 
> 
> We can dispose of this by not trying to get the same Lojban predicate
> to cover both "dragon"/"wyrm" and "dragon"/"long2" 

That wouldn't necessarily be a good move, though. You like cats; I don't.
But nonetheless, cats is cats. 

--And.