From vyxle@hotmail.com Tue Jul 03 21:13:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: vyxle@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Jul 2001 04:13:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 85858 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 04:13:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2001 04:13:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hj.egroups.com) (10.1.10.42) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 04:13:52 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: vyxle@hotmail.com Received: from [10.1.10.123] by hj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2001 04:13:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 04:13:49 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Question of meaning Message-ID: <9hu55t+7pq3@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 567 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 66.26.49.134 From: "vyxle" Erm, yes, in that I'm new on this list (and rather new to lojban as well) I'm not 100% certain of how it would be correct to go about asking this...but here goes. A friend and I were discussing vocatives. co'o, ki'e, etc. He then mentioned that nai could be tacked on to negate something. The question then came up as to what it would mean when someone said "coinai". Would it be negative in emotion? Would it be a vocalized avoidance of greeting? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I would much appreciate hearing what other people think. Thanks! Alice