Re: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:


> To affirm or negate a specific part of the sentence we use {naku} or {na'e}. 
> {na'e} negates one word, so it behaves like {xu}


Not necessarily:  na'e ke ... ke'e scalar-negates the whole of "...".
The more important distinction, though, is bridi negation (na) vs.
scalar negation (na'e).

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