From phma@webjockey.net Wed Jan 30 16:00:42 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 31 Jan 2002 00:00:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 8179 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 00:00:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Jan 2002 00:00:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 00:00:41 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 890233C502; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:00:37 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "Lojban List" Subject: Re: [lojban] signs and seasons and days and years Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:00:36 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0201290231243K.30016@neofelis> <05fa01c1a9b7$a9101f80$90b4003e@default> In-Reply-To: <05fa01c1a9b7$a9101f80$90b4003e@default> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02013019003609.00326@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:57, Adam Raizen wrote: > 'X [hayah] le-Y' is a common formula in the Bible for 'X became/was > Y'. Compare the phrase 'vatehi lo le-isha' -- 'She was/became his > wife.', which must occur numerous times (too lazy to find an example > just now). I suppose that calling them seasons, days and years is a > metaphor. Is that type of metaphor allowed in lojban? I think I would > say that they are signs for seasons, etc. Could they also be signs for navigation, as well as marking seasons? phma