Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> How would you explain "red" to an ET without pointing at a red
> object?  (And without reference to wavelength, which would be an
> arbitrary division anyways, and clearly wasn't available for most of
> human history for definition)
"Red" is the light radiated by a blackbody at an absolute temperature
of 1200 kelvins, where 1 kelvin is 1/273.16 of the unique temperature at
which water can coexist in solid, liquid, and gaseous states.  (Water is
a common chemical in the universe.)

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
I must confess that I have very little notion of what [s. 4 of the British
Trade Marks Act, 1938] is intended to convey, and particularly the sentence
of 253 words, as I make them, which constitutes sub-section 1.  I doubt if
the entire statute book could be successfully searched for a sentence of
equal length which is of more fuliginous obscurity. --MacKinnon LJ, 1940

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