Re: [jboske] xoi'a

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Lionel Vidal scripsit:

> Unfortunately, the CLL itself spoils this idea in lojban by stating that:
> {na pu broda} is exactly the same as {punai broda} (except for emphasis).
> In my understanding of meta-comments, these should be semantically very
> different, with {punai broda} still claiming {broda}, and {na pu broda}
> claiming only {pu broda} as false. The elegance, very subjectively, would
> have been much greater, but this would require a change to the CLL
> that would...., well you know :-)

I agree with this. "Punai" is a hack, and should have had either na'e
semantics or been disallowed. But it has na semantics, and so it goes.

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