Re: [lojban] Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> Okay. But if I said "le vu botpi be [lo] djacu", would that mean that at some time
> the bottle was or will be over there with water in it?

Nope. It could still be a potential bottle-of-water. But if it couldn't
contain water (because it is made of sugar, say), then it would not
be a "botpi be lo djacu".

-- 
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"