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[lojban-beginners] Re: Story time



At 04:39 AM 3/12/04 -0800, la xorxes wrote:

--- der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

[snip]

> > .i lo pulji cu klama by. .ije ku'i noda .ianai viska node .ianai
>
> I'm not sure of the distinction you're trying to draw between {noda}
> and {node}, quite likely because I don't entirely understand them. :-/
>
> "The police came/come to B., but I can't believe nobody at all saw/sees
> nothing at all; I still can't believe it."

Under the usual interpretation, the two negatives will cancel
and {noda viska node} would be equivalent to {roda viska su'ode},
"everybody saw something".

To say that nobody saw anything you'd have to say {noda viska su'ode}
or {roda viska node}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

No, "noda" means "there are zero things (da) such that", so "noda viska node" means "there are zero x's and zero y's such that x sees y". I thought it was a nifty way of saying "No one (yeah, sure) saw anything (yeah, right)".


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mi'e noras                                             noras@cox.net
Nora LeChevalier