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[lojban] Re: Reverse of ne'i?



Cool.  Thanks.

-Robin

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:03:12AM -0500, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:40:24AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > la camgusmis cusku di'e
> > >There seems to be no tense for 'outside'.
> > 
> > Probably {ne'inai}.
> 
> {ne'inai} is contrary negation.  It simply says "it is false that
> it is within", just like a na.  This goes for PU and FAhA alike,
> and there's an example specifically regarding this (ne'inai) in the
> book (chap 10, ex 18.3).
> 
> This may or may not be sufficent for the use camgusmis was looking
> for...
> 
> > But you can always use {fi'o se bartu}.
> > {ne'i} is {fi'o se nenri}.
> 
> Note that NAhE are fine even on floating tenses, so you can also
> use {to'e ne'i} to mean outside.  (There's also an example of this
> in the book; 18.6 same chap)
> 
>   mu'o
> -- 
> Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
> lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
>                                      sei la mark. tuen. cusku



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