Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban can help?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:29:38 PDT

la pycyn cusku di'e

>I'm not sure whether noroi is strictly negative and whether, if it is, 
>roda
>is in its scope (the book doesn't take it up at the relevant point.

I always took the roi's as just another quantified variable.
It would be nice to have a definite scope convention, all tenses
can be so affected really.

>If the
>answer to both is "yes,"
>then just da or (folksy style) noda -- or prenex.

Is folksy style good Lojban? Double negatives are folksy
in English but standard in Spanish. In Lojban they are
supposed to cancel out, so {noroi... noda} should mean
{roroi ... su'oda}.

>But the point is that lb
>can say this very easily.

Yes, almost as easily as English... :)

co'o mi'e xorxes

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