Re: [lojban] Re: {zo'e}

[Jacob Thomas Errington <jake@mail.jerrington.me>]

coi

On 2021-01-06 13:04, scope845hlang343jbo@icebubble.org wrote:
> If we use your interpretation, then {mi viska zo'e} could mean {mi viska
> lo nanmu} but could not mean {mi viska lo na nanmu}.  It seems, to me,
> that {lo na nanmu} would be a perfectly legitimate meaning for {zo'e}.

My interpretation wouldn't forbid {lo na nanmu} as a referent for 
{zo'e}. It forbids {no da (poi whatever)} as a referent for zo'e, 
because such a referent makes the (outer) bridi negative.

  {mi viska lo na nanmu} is an affirmative statement, that I see 
something that satisfies (the negative) {na nanmu}.

On the other hand

  {mi viska no (da poi) nanmu} is a negative statement, that I do not 
see anything that satisfies (the affirmative) {nanmu}.

The crucial difference is that in the former, I do say I'm seeing 
something, and that thing is identified by not being a {nanmu}; whereas 
in the latter I am merely denying seeing any {nanmu}. In other words, 
the latter is a claim of _not seeing_, versus the former being a claim 
of _seeing_.

See 
https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-negation-boundaries.html#example-random-id-fpeW 
in particular the paragraph below example 16.70 explaining that {no da} 
is replaced with {naku su'o da}.

Now I hope my reason for saying {no da (poi whatever)} can't be what 
{zo'e} stands for is clear: if (implicit) {zo'e} can stand for {noda}, 
then a claim such as {mi viska (zo'e)} could actually mean that I 
_don't_ see! And to me, that is totally bonkers.

> zo do'e ki'a

Many cmavo ending in {o'e} are 'elliptical' in Lojban (with the 
egregious exception of {.o'e} itself). {do'e} is the elliptical modal, 
which stands for some BAI/fi'o.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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