On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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"?
Ah, now I understand, and further understand why you mentioned "jgina" in your first message. Taken completely out of context, I had no idea what the English sentence meant. I thought you were just talking about abstract things... well, let's see.. you could certainly get away with saying "le" rather than "lo" since even in xorlo there's no implication that it's actually colored that way.
--gy