[lojban-beginners] Re: Not a Box (a lesson in lojban negation)

["Turniansky, Michael [UNK]" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

  Quite right, Jorge.  Thank you.  I keep forgetting that tenses can act as modals.   While we're on the subject, is there a tense for "on/upon/on top of"?  I would assume ga'ure'o works, but I'm not sure if there is anything shorter....

             --gy

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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Not a Box (a lesson in lojban negation)

On 6/5/07, turnip <turnip@bcpl.net> wrote:
>
> mu'i ma do ne'i zutse lo tanxe (bunny sitting in box)
> xu do ca'o ne'i sanli leva tanxe (bunny stading in box)

I think you want {zutse ne'i lo tanxe}/{sanli ne'i le va tanxe}
for those.

{ne'i zutse/sanli lo tanxe} says that the bunny is sitting/standing
on the box, and that this happens inside of something unspecified
(a room?).

{zutse/sanli ne'i lo tanxe} says that the bunny is sitting/standing
on something unspecified (the floor of the box?), and that this
happens inside the box.

mu'o mi'e xorxes