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Re: [lojban-beginners] Talking about a color


On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:08 PM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

To me, it doesn't make sense for green to have the property green.

But if green is not green but just some abstract property, what would make it more likeable than any other property? What properties does the property of being green has that makes it likeable?

One can construe it that way and listeners will sometimes take your meaning, of course, but I'm not sure it is technically accurate. But I admit it's a tricky question. Nonetheless, if somewhere says to me out of the blue,

    mi trajynei lo crino

I wouldn't think they are saying green-the-color is their favorite, but rather "I favor the green stuff".

Which is not very different from favoring green. Favoring green means that given a choice between green stuff and other-color stuff you are more likely to go with green stuff, other things being equal, right? 
 
And I'd probably be looking around for something green. It occurs to me though that trajynei might provide a simple solution itself:

    mi trajynei lo crino lo se skari
    I favor green among colors.

This is very close to your:

    mi trajynei lo crino se skari

But lacks the use of metaphor, so is more exact in meaning. Correct?

It's more precise, yes, but tanru usually are not metaphors, and "crino se skari" is not metaphorical. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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