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Re: Shades of blue



In message  <9505251641.aa16676@punt2.demon.co.uk> cowan@locke.ccil.org writes:
> la xorxes. cusku di'e
> > > Your blood is extremely blue.
> >
> >         le do ciblu cu tcerai blanu
> >
> > Blue mood and language are strange. They wouldn't normally be said
> > to be blue in Lojban.
>
> Unless the listener is a crab, or a squid, or a sandworm, or some other
> such organism with copper-based respiration.

Your brain appears to have been on standby :-) Jorge was not commenting
on the phrase "blue blood", but on the previous phrases which you
omitted from your quote.

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Iain Alexander                    ia@stryx.demon.co.uk
                    I.Alexander@bra0125.wins.icl.co.uk