From xod@sixgirls.org Wed Jan 02 15:37:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 2 Jan 2002 23:37:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 80938 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 23:37:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Jan 2002 23:37:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 23:37:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g02Nbse16052 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:37:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:37:54 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] A Sapir-Whorfian example In-Reply-To: <0201021835421Q.20067@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 17:06, Invent Yourself wrote: > >> Interesting! Too bad you didn't paste the phrasing used by nuzban, but, I > > assume it groups it like terdi zumcanja baldinju as opposed to terdi ke > > zumcanja baldinju. > > {la munje nuncanja midju}. Which brings up the shoeicide bomber. He was > definitely a cutci jbama prenu, not cutci ke jbama prenu (well actually he > *was*, but most bombers wear shoes), but lo bampre are far more commonly > talked about than lo cucyjbama. So should we say {cutci bampre}, {cucyjbama > prenu}, or {cucybampre}? Center is just an English metaphor for a building or set of buildings. It's not really the middle of anything. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.