From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 03 22:28:58 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:28:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JAg38-0005hg-2g for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:28:58 -0800 Received: from squid17.laughingsquid.net ([72.32.93.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JAg31-0005hJ-5l for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:28:57 -0800 Received: (qmail 20838 invoked by uid 48); 3 Jan 2008 22:28:37 -0800 Received: from c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net (c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [75.68.233.37]) by webmail.ixkey.info (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:28:37 -0800 Message-ID: <20080103222837.9e6eaa7z4k0sggw8@webmail.ixkey.info> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:28:37 -0800 From: mungojelly@ixkey.info To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] .uinainai?? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 136 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mungojelly@ixkey.info Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I just got this question from krilltish on the livejournal Cniglic community: > Also, if [-nai] means negaing, opposite (equivalent to Esperanto [mal-]), > would [.uinainai] still mean "happy" or just mean "the opposite of unhappy"? pe'u. ko .io spuda I can explain a little in general about Lojban negation & the roles of zo nai, but I don't know what happens if you put two nais after .ui like that?! mu'o mi'e doi bret.