flowers (was: "beginner's question")

[Robin Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

Another thought on the "all women are flowers" saying.  Could I avoid
metaphor altogether by saying

le piro ninmu cu simsa le xrula [zo'e]

?

(here I use "le" not "lo", but that just follows my views on markedness)

This is more prosaic, but has the advantage that it has an obvious
truth-value, and thus invites the retort

la'edi'u na drani

or

cu simsa ko'a ma




Robin Turner

Bilkent Universitesi,
IDMYO,
Ankara,
Turkey.

<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8309>