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Date: Fri Sep 19 06:12:04 1997
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From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@ELF.BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: negated nitcu
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cu'u la .and.
> > {mi na'e nitcu ko'a} implies that {mi na nitcu ko'a} is true.
> It doesn't. At best in certain contexts it pragmatically
> implicates that.

cu'u la lojbab.
> I  believe that the negation chapter clearly states that scalar negation
> entails contradictory negation AND goes beyond it in stating that some
> other relationship is true.

I agree with lojbab on this point.  Certainly, it makes sense to me that
"na'e" would imply "na".

ni'oco'omi'e dn.