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[lojban-beginners] Re: .uinainai??
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: .uinainai??
- From: "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:23:33 -0300
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On 1/4/08, mungojelly@ixkey.info <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:
> I just got this question from krilltish on the livejournal Cniglic community:
>
> > Also, if [-nai] means negaing, opposite (equivalent to Esperanto [mal-]),
> > would [.uinainai] still mean "happy" or just mean "the opposite of unhappy"?
>
> pe'u. ko .io spuda
Isn't "happy" the opposite of "unhappy"?
> I can explain a little in general about Lojban negation & the roles of
> zo nai, but I don't know what happens if you put two nais after .ui
> like that?!
{uinainai} is currently ungrammatical, the allowed positions for {nai}
are more restricted than one would imagine. But if it were grammatical
(as I think it should be) I wouldn't expect it to mean something
very different from plain {ui}. Perhaps with a connotation that it is a
happiness counter to an expectation of unhappiness.
mu'o mi'e xorxes