Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 04:01 PM 11/25/03 -0800,  Robin wrote:
> 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?

I think it is usually symmetric, but I would not want to make it a guarantee
lojbab

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