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).
-- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org