Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:51:57PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> 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).

So you believe that srana is symmetric?

-Robin

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