One of the questions though was "what does no'e broda" look like when the "scaleness" of "broda" is really a scale of two states.
It's kind of like when I drive by the town of middlesex. It always gives me pause. Just how would one define a "middle gender"? What does it mean to be {no'e} on a scale that only has two states (presumably they are opposite states).
And on these two state scales, {na'e} and {to'e} have the same meaning (with perhaps subtle nuanced differences). Leaving aside transgender issues; polar opposite of female = other than female :: to'e fetsi = na'e fetsi. So what is {no'e fetsi}?
Like I said earlier, truely two-state scales are extremely hard to find in the real world. One can always find ways in which a two-state system can have fuzzy middle-grounds. i.e. zombies, ajar doors, hermaphrodites, standby mode, sleep-walking, etc... so it might be somewhat of a moot question in real world applications.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Lindar
<lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
I would like to submit the following:
My interpretation is this:
je'a blabi - white
no'e blabi - grey
to'e blabi - black
na'e blabi - any colour other than white
It implies a scale *or set*.
If that's not exactly how it's used, that's how I use it, and that's
how it should be used.