Re: [lojban] Re: interactions between tenses, other tenses, and NA

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> To me it seems one of the more naturalistic features of Lojban --
> a quirky, exceptional, counterintuitive, unnecessary complication,
> of the sort natlangs are full of & Lojban is largely free of.

What is alien is that a contradictory negation particle should be other
than at the beginning of the sentence.

In Loglan, sentence-initial "no" served this function.  IIRC, Lojbab
consciously moved it from the natural sentence-initial position to just
before the selbri "because it was more naturalistic".  IMHO a mistake.

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