Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

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.

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