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[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #208
> {su'o danlu na xarju} is equivalent to {naku su'o danlu cu xarju}.
> "Some animals are not pigs" is {su'o danlu naku xarju}. {su'o danlu
> na'e xarju} means "some animals are other than pigs", which is almost
> the same, but not logically equivalent.
Actually, I think those English translations *are* logically
equivalent. But the first one is an inaccurate translation; I would
gloss {su'o danlu naku xarju} as "it is not the case that some animals
are pigs", which is equivalent to "no animals are pigs", not "some
animals are not pigs". Or does {naku} mean something other than a {na}
which happens to be placed next to a {ku}?
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