Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:46:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711142246.RAA20362@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Thanatos Sender: Lojban list From: Thanatos Subject: Re: `at least one ' vrs `one or more' X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 668 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Nov 14 17:46:46 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >This is fine, but does not help answer the question, which English >translation of > > mi na nelci lo mlatu > >is better? [I wrote a nice long bit of the conditions of {mi nelci lo mlatu} being false, but Lee got there first.] However, now I have a questing. If you negate "I like some cats," then you have the absence of liking any of them. If you wanted to say that there are some cats you don't like, then you should say that liking them all is false. [And this is where my inexperience with lojban comes in.] mi na nelci ro mlatu I [false] like all of the cats. I dislike some cats. How's that for my not liking some of the cats? -- Erik W. Cornilsen