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On Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:46:56 AM EDT solpahi wrote:
> "everything except for X" is equivalent to "everything that is not X".
> The usual way to express this in Lojban is:
> 
>     mi nelci ro    finpe poi   [ke'a] na .angila
>     I  like  every fish  which [it]   not eel
>     "I like every fish except for eels."
> 
> When you have referents that are the exception, then {po'u nai} can be
> used to save space:
> 
>     mi nelci ro finpe po'u nai ti
>     "I like every fish except for this one."
> 
> ({po'u nai} is short for {poi ke'a na du})

Both jbofi'e and camxes (at http://camxes.lojban.org) reject "po'unai". Is 
there a newer version that accepts it?

Another useful phrase is "na'ebo":

	na'ebo la .djan. lebna le botpi
	Someone other than John took the bottle.

Pierre
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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