Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:26:15 -0500 (EST)
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Subject:      Re: `at least one ' vrs `one or more'
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> And Rosta <a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk> writes:
>
>    Can I suggest that discussions about scope of negation,
>    etc., use some sort of logical notation instead of
>    ordinary English?
>
> This is fine, but does not help answer the question, which English
> translation of
>
>     mi na nelci lo mlatu
>
> is better?
>
>     I don't like any cats.
> or
>     I don't like some cats.

I have to agree with Jorge--I got it wrong the first time, and
that sentence means the former.  I should have used {na'e}, since
I intended the meaning "I dislike some cats".  The only way that
{mi nelci lo mlatu} can be false is if I dislike /all/ cats.

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