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species of a stone lion
- To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
- Subject: species of a stone lion
- From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:02:23 -0500
- In-reply-to: <199511221547.KAA07024@locke.ccil.org> (message from John Cowan on Wed, 22 Nov 1995 10:47:11 -0500 (EST))
- Reply-to: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU>
- Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
John Cowan:
Ivan's example is "stone lion"; this is a good tanru, and
doesn't mean that "cinfo" has to have the place structure "x1 is a lion
of species x2, made of material x3"! Indeed, the x2 place of "cinfo"
probably never gets filled in "rokcinfo", because it is fairly useless.
Never say never! zo'obu
I can readily imagine archeologists distinguishing among the species
of stone lions, both in the sense of {species represented}, and in the
sense of {stylistic species}.
Not that I am disagreeing with the thrust of what John said; I am
merely shifting the `probably never' to `hardly ever outside of
certain contexts'.