Re: Problems with Abstraction

[John Cowan <cowan@DRV.CBC.COM>]

la .and. cusku di'e

[much correct Lojbanery snipped]

> It's like "All that
> glitters is not gold", which is fine for many many English
> speakers though not for me (I wd have to say "Not all that
> glitters is gold").

Really?  I'm, as Colin Fine says, gobsmacked.  There are
people who can say "All that flows is not water", outside
poetry?

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban