Re: ja`a/na go`i

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>> I didn't know that "na broda .ije ja`a go`i" is defined as a contradiction.
>> Does this mean that "go'i" = "broda" in this case?
>
>In this example, "go`i" = "na broda", "na go`i" = "na broda",
>and "ja`a go`i" = "broda". So it's not as bad as you feared.
>
>This is from memory of a Woldemarian pronouncement when the issue
>was discussed on Lojban list some time in the last 3 or 4 years.
>It must be in the Book somewhere, but I'm not sure where to look
>--More--
>it up.

It is correct.

>[BTW, it wd be good in the longrun if one could search the
>online grammar according to selma`o. So I could ask for NA
>+ GO`A and get directed to passages discussing both of these.]

The printed book has a 60 page index including all the selma'o
and then much more.  The best solution I can imagine for the on line
version right now (barring downloading the thing and doing a grep search
)
is to use the selma'o catalog in Chap 20, and then look in the chapters
referenced therein.

Note that the online book is not the final version.  We found mult
itudinous
typos and a small number of real errors after Cowan and I stopped bein
g able
to document each change to the list as we went along (formattin
g related
typos such as inconsistent punctuation of ex
xamples alone amounts to over
1 change per page).

We do not know when we can put a final text up on the Web site, or even
IF we can do so in HTML.  The baseline format will bw switching to eith
er
Microsoft Word internal format or to Postscript with publication, and we
are not sure whether it is feasible to regenerate html tags in the resulting
text.  We are considering putting the book up in PDF format readable with
Acrobat.  I believe that Acrobat allows for text searches.

lojbab
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