[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 9/17/2009 14:46:09 Eastern Daylight Time, ivo.doko@gmail.com writes:


> 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. 
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