Re: [lojban] Principles

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> {soi} works for "and vice versa", but not for "or vice versa".

It can't imagine anyone using "or vice versa" in a flat declarative
sentence like "Fido bit Rover or vice versa": to say that is to admit
an ignorance too profound for words.  I think that "or vice versa"
is far more likely when in the scope of a negation (as here) or
perhaps in a contrastive question ("Did Fido bite Rover, or [was it]
vice versa?").

I don't have the solution here, but I feel it has something to do
with negation scope.

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