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Tanru are not lujvo.>>
Almost true (an odd concept in its own right). Every lujvo selects A meaning from the underlying tanru (and a tanru -- at least one -- underlies every lujvo). How do we know which meaning was selected for a given lujvo? There is nothing inherent in the lujvo to tell us, so it must be the context by which we figure it out -- if we do. But, if context is needed to figure out a "literal" lujvo (and it is), it can be used in much the same way to figure out a "metaphorical" one -- perhaps with a smaller percentage of hits than for the literal one, but rarely (if the metaphor is a good one) with a really small percentage. And a larger context will up the percentage even more in both cases. So the test proposed is not going to be a very interesting one, though better than the original no-context version.
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