Re: Missing the sky

Muke Tever wrote:
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> >>Well, mirages and rainbows can be seen clearly, though a horizon isn't
> >>(what color is it?).
> >
> >If you take that attitude to horizons, Rami speakers are going to have a
> >real problem with borders of all kinds. What color is the lines between
>the
> >blue and white in the French flag, for instance?
> >
> >Also, what do you do with thinks like the equator, the tropics and the
> >poles, or political borders, or midday/midnight?
>
>Well, horizons, borders and boundaries seem to be verbs (after the manner
>of
>'divide' or 'xwrizw'), not nouns... or at least verbal forms.  For example
>political borders could be 'where lands meet', or somesuch.  (yeah I really
>need
>to get into roots generation quickly so these can actually look like
>things)
>
>It would help me a little if someone could supply a sentence where, say,
>that
>border on the French flag is the agent or patient of a verb.
"Said border separates the blue from the white."

So something litterally meaning "separator" perhaps?

                                               Andreas

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