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Reply-To: Colin Fine <C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
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From: Colin Fine <C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: TECH: "only and "mi'u"
To: Erik Rauch <erikr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
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Lojbab answering John:

>>"parallel" is probably a bad word.  I assume what you are referring to
>>is {mi'u}, discursive ditto, which has no defined opposite.
>
>That is the word I had in mind (having finally checked).  So, could
>mi'unai be reasonably interpreted (or stretched) as "only, exclusively".
>If so, we save ourselves a cmavo.  The only other direction I can go in
>my head as an "opposite" to mi'u, leads to something of a flavor similar
>to "ku'i", but more restricted in scope.


The latter is certainly what I would expect if I came upon "mi'unai"
.
        Colin