From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Fri Oct 20 09:09:25 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 20 Oct 2000 16:09:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 32487 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 16:07:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 Oct 2000 16:07:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnd.internet-bg.net) (212.124.64.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 16:07:42 -0000 Received: from math.bas.bg (ppp6.internet-bg.net [212.124.66.6]) by lnd.internet-bg.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA03579 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:33:01 +0300 Message-ID: <39F05BFF.825F4BA2@math.bas.bg> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:51:43 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: RE:literalism References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Jorge Llambias wrote: > la xod cusku di'e > >(I always thought "skyscraper" was a good designation for > >an airliner. After all, they do make a scraping sound.) > > Yes, I tried to imagine what I would think a "skyscraper" > was if I didn't know, and I also thought of airplanes, > as well as of windmills. I'm not sure a very tall building > would be my first choice. I agree. Scraping is a dynamic thing; it involves the motion of something sharp against something flat. A very tall building might be said to reach the sky, but it doesn't scrape it. If one wants a metaphor, there's a beautiful one in the Babel passage (Gn 11:): `a tower [such that] its head [is] in the sky'. --Ivan