From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 12 17:33:48 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B1y28-0005DR-NI for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:33:48 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:33:48 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Story time Message-ID: <20040313013348.GU11847@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200403121047.FAA11611@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <20040312123925.96920.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040312123925.96920.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 594 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:39:25AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > .i lo pulji cu klama by. .ije ku'i noda .ianai viska node .ianai > > > > I'm not sure of the distinction you're trying to draw between {noda} > > and {node}, quite likely because I don't entirely understand them. > > :-/ > > > > "The police came/come to B., but I can't believe nobody at all > > saw/sees nothing at all; I still can't believe it." > > Under the usual interpretation, the two negatives will cancel and > {noda viska node} would be equivalent to {roda viska su'ode}, > "everybody saw something". > > To say that nobody saw anything you'd have to say {noda viska su'ode} > or {roda viska node}. Also "roda na viska rode", I think. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui