From cowan@ccil.org Mon Aug 23 10:59:59 1999
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Mark's proposed "ja'ai" already exists
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There is already a positive analogue to "nai", and that is "jo'a".
It can be attached to attitudes to make them explicitly positive,
or used as a general metalinguistic affirmer: this is so, despite
appearances otherwise.

Grammatically "jo'a" belongs to UI rather than NAI, but that simply
means it cannot be used in place of the non-attitudinal uses of "nai",
such as with connectives, tenses, etc.  (In practice if you want
to say ".ejo'a" it is grammatical 99% of the time.)

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin