[lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> --- John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How would we say that in Lojban?
> 
>    lo ka ce'u ba'o cecla makau cu na srana lo cecla iku'i 
>    lo ka makau ba'o cecla ce'u cu ja'asai srana lo se cecla
>    "What it has fired is not relevant to a gun, but 
>    what has fired it is very relevant to a bullet."

On further thought, it should be {le mokau} instead of {makau},
because what matters or not is "which" rather than "what".

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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