[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

2009/9/17  <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com>:
> In a message dated 9/17/2009 14:46:09 Eastern Daylight Time,
> ivo.doko@gmail.com writes:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Neon is the tenth chemical element, one of the noble elements.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon
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> I think you mean "photons", the particles which make up light.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photons
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> 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

Oh my stupid sleepy brain, of course I meant photons... x-|

Sorry.