RE:[lojban] Request for grammar clarifications

["Robert A. McIvor" <rmcivor@macsrule.com>]

At 15:31 -0400 30/5/01, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/30/2001 10:00:39 AM Central Daylight Time,
> robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR writes:
>
> > ro cevni du la .alax." = "Every god is identical with Allah".
> >
> > But does this really capture the sense of "la ilahi il'allah" (which I
> > assume
> > it is a translation of)? 
>
>
> Well, the formula looks to be negative ("la"), and the usual trat is "There
> is no God but Allah" so it might literally be {no da poi na du la .allax. cu
> cevni}, which, unfortunately, allows for atheism, so it is not right either
> -- for so does the cowan's version. As I was saying about quantifiers, ...
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And so does the usual E trat, which seems to me to be 
equivalent to 'If there is a God, it is Allah', and my limited 
knowledge of Arabic suggests that the 'no God' possibility is 
technically there as
well, though eliminated by the second part (Mohammed is the 
messenger of Allah).
--
Sincerely,
Robert A. McIvor
(rmcivor@macsrule.com)