Subject: Re: je (was: crdlus. critique)

From: "buzzwyrd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:05:47 -0000

I can imagine a (blocks) world where "big for a red block" might be 
"small for a blue block".

--- In lojban@y..., Rob Speer <rob@t...> 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}.