Re: [lojban-beginners] More lojban kid stories.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

It means "the question is invalid".  It's the canonical example to
"have you stopped beating your wife yet?".

Also, and while this is criticism it's not of you specifically but
at a general trend around here, when one is thinking "How do I use
this Lojban cmavo?", there's this thing called the CLL?  That, umm,
that's sort of the *point* of it?  So maybe you could check that?

In this case, http://dag.github.com/cll/15/10/ , this issue is
discussed rather extensively.

-Robin

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:51:33PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> Uhhhh. Yeah I figured I just didn't understand it.... could you
> explain it to me the same way that you explained it to your kid?
> Then a couple examples?
>
> On Jun 15, 2011 5:05 PM, "Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You don't really understand na'i. It's much more than a glorified
> > na/na'e. It's more equivalent to the zen "mu". It lets the asker
> > know the question cannot have been asked in that form, for any answer
> > would be incorrect. Therefore, it metaphorically unasks the question.
> > --gejyspa
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Either I'm missing something or I don't really understand na'i. I've
> always
> >> just thought of it as a glorofied na or na'e
> >>
> >> On Jun 15, 2011 4:19 PM, "Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> My 11yo says, "I need to use "na'i" more in my life." I had told him
> >>> the meaning of the word, and he thinks it would be great for English.
> >>> --gejyspa
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