[lojban-beginners] Re: ke'a

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/23/08, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Are you saying that "mi po'o .e do broda" doesn't make sense to you?

I'm saying it's contradictory, yes.

>  It has meaning to me.  It means that you broda, and no one else but
> me also brodas.  Consider something like the English, "Besides Johnny,
> no one else in the class but me knows all state capitals."

So for you it means the same as {fu'e mi .e do fu'o po'o broda}.
For me it means {mi po'o broda .ije do broda}: "I am the only one
that brodas, and you broda", which is contradictory.

> > You are saying {ro da poi broda zi'e brode} = {ro da poi broda .e ro
> > de poi brode}
>
>  I most certainly am NOT saying that.  "ro da poi broda zi'e brode"
> is not grammatical.

I meant to write {ro da poi broda zi'e poi brode}, sorry.

But consider this:

{ro nanmu ja ninmu poi klama le nolraitru [...] zi'e poi na'e se klacpe}

Does that include all men or women who went to the king, and also
all men or women who were not summoned, or only all men or women
that both went and were not summoned?

mu'o mi'e xorxes