[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni-opportunity-bringing along

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 14 September 2009 13:21:56 Oleksii Melnyk wrote:
> 2009/9/14, Tom <to_mu1975@yahoo.com>:
> > What could possibly go into the x1 place? I can't think of anyhthing
> > sensible.
>
> And, probably, we can use "lo se krixa be vo'i cu gusni da de" for
> de-scribing some "optically blind" creatures, like bats, dolphins,
> etc.

I wouldn't say that. Sound isn't light, and a bat's sound image processing is 
quite different from visual image processing.

Neither bats nor dolphins are optically blind, btw. "Blind as a bat" comes 
from the flight patterns of bats, which look as if they can't see where 
they're going, but they change course mid-flight to grab insects, which the 
batwatcher may not see. Blind animals in otherwise sighted taxa typically 
live in caves or underground. (Bats live in caves, but they fly outside 
them.)

Pierre