Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:02:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710142002.PAA29771@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: na'enai To: "lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu" X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 862 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Oct 14 15:02:18 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU > 1. What, then, happens to {po`o}? Does it then mean something more > like "merely"? I think there are several synonyms for 'only' such as 'just', 'merely' and 'except' that more or less amount to the same thing. How does one say "A and B only"? For example, "Only John and Jim are drinking coffee", it seems to me that the only of one exculdes the other. > 2. Does using {na`enai} violate the spirit or letter of the > baseline? The letter. "nai" is not allowed to follow "na'e" under the baselined grammar. Spiritually, I would say it is sound. >3. How would one say "He is not french and he is non-french"? > - Since lots of people have announced their wish to say such > things easily, is there a simple way to do it? Maybe > {ti na`enai na`e fraso} might be satisfactory? .i ko'a fraso .ije ko'a na'e fraso ni'o co'omi'e dn.