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Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 22:16
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

> exactly. you can't properly map agents and patients of that kind of verbs - > yes : verbs - without first referring to semantic categories such as "human; > body; alive; function". wordnet is not so dumb as it looks. and i wonder > where you got that dummy example because "iki" in jap means "breath" and its > chinese reading "soku" means "human existence".
Oh, just thin air! Actually I was inspired by the the Lord's breath hovering over the water, or what I remembered about that from my abortive attempt at learning Hebrew. Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt