Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 08:53 AM 11/25/03 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Bob LeChevalier scripsit:
>
> > Thus in English, relevance is not perfectly symmetric, though I
> > would have trouble characterizing the asymmetry.
>
>As Master Sorcerer Seamus O Lochlainn points out in the Randall Garrett
>mystery _Too Many Magicians_, it's not relevant to a gun which bullets it
>has fired, as the wear on a gun is primarily mechanical; but it is very
>relevant to a bullet which gun fired it -- a point extremely important
>to forensic ballistics whether thaumaturgical or not.

I think that is "steci".  The gun is steci to the (fired) bullet, from 
which it can be determined that the bullet srana the gun (and vice versa).


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