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Re: [lojban] Re: ynai

Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Friday 18 April 2003 18:30, Craig wrote:

".y" is in selma'o Y, not UI - can it really be negated? 

Y shouldn't be negatable. Y is not negatable in actual usage. The Book does
not mention Y being negatable. Jbofi'e thinks Y is negatable. Jordan tells
me that the BNF disagrees. Hrm, looks like Y is not negatable.


What about {mi viska le bloti .ui .y. nai}?

The ".y." is outside the grammar of the sentence, rather like an English adverbial. Either the sentence is ungrammatical, or we apply that rule (i.e. don't apply scope rules to selma'o Y), in which case I suppose it would come out as "I see the boat. Cool, er, not."

robin.tr


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