From jcrossco@bellsouth.net Fri Jan 04 16:05:48 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcrossco@bellsouth.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 5 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 20413 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n23.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.73) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 Received: from [216.115.96.162] by n23.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: je (was: crdlus. critique) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020104235804.GI1109@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 733 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "buzzwyrd" X-Originating-IP: 24.98.21.225 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=83886082 X-Yahoo-Profile: buzzwyrd I can imagine a (blocks) world where "big for a red block" might be "small for a blue block". --- In lojban@y..., Rob Speer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:58:18PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Rob Speer wrote: > > > > > Person: PICK UP A BIG RED BLOCK. > > > la prenu: ko lafti da poi barda ke xunre bliku > > > > > Remember that je is symmetrical. I would agree with barda je xunre bliku, > > but not barda je xunre je bliku. > > Of course it is symmetrical. A red block is a block-being red-thing. > (The hyphenated words are necessary because there is no good adjective > form of "is a block" or noun form of "red".) > And in Lojban, {lo xunre je bliku du lo bliku je xunre}.