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Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals



At 09:19 PM 06/11/2001 -0500, Richard Todd wrote:
Except, now it bothers me even more that {ti botpi fo zi'o} doesn't
exclude the set of all bottles that *do* have caps.  The way it is, how
would you say, unambiguously, that "this is a botpi, except without a
cap"?

I don't see why "botpi fo noda" doesn't work. It actually DOES have a cap, potentially (as do most botpi), but there is no cap on it.

lojbab
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