Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> Not to me.  In light of {ninmu} `woman', {ninba} makes me imagine
> an old woman (a granny) rather than a young one (a girl).

But plainly a "ninba" is a "ba ninmu", no?

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"