[lojban] Re: elliptical sentences

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 08:33:56 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   Huh?  Am I missing something here?  What's elliptical about it?
>               --gejyspa

The complete statement would be "The genes for seeing red and green are on the 
X chromosome; the gene for seeing blue is on the 7th chromosome". The gene 
for seeing red isn't red, so calling it "lo xunre" isn't literally right. Do 
I have to say at least "lo xunre co'e"?

Pierre


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