From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Tue Aug 08 00:39:05 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30005 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:39:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Aug 2000 07:39:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fg.egroups.com) (10.1.2.134) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:39:05 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.95] by fg.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 Aug 2000 07:39:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 07:38:58 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives Message-ID: <8modei+g9ev@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 326 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" --- In lojban@egroups.com, John Cowan wrote: > 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? Shouldn't that be "nimba"? .aulun.