From cowan@ccil.org Mon Aug 07 14:40:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3334 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 21:40:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Aug 2000 21:40:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 21:40:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA21225; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:26:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives In-Reply-To: <398CF142.507AAB33@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > Not to me. In light of {ninmu} `woman', {ninba} makes me imagine > an old woman (a granny) rather than a young one (a girl). But plainly a "ninba" is a "ba ninmu", no? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"