Re: The two lo'es (was: essentials of a gadri system)
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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Jorge Llamb��)B�as scripsit: > In my view, lo'e kumte is sometimes female and sometimes male, sometimes > it has one hump and sometimes two (and other times none). In many context > the question is irrelevant. Very well, but I am not attempting to state your view, but what CLL says. > It is like asking "what does John Cowan hold > in his hand?". It varies with context, and in many contexts it is > irrelevant. On the CLL view, lo'e se jgari be la djan. bei fo lo xance is surely "nothing". The occasions on which I am in fact holding something in my hand are exceptional, not characteristic. -- Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" John Cowan <jcowan-k6JZYsoqQQ8PxK1qzZLvrwC/[email protected]>