Re: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> But it _is_ a word that makes sense used anywhere: it changes the
> previous word into an opposite. Isn't that how it works now,

No.  It changes some words into their opposites; for others, it induces
contradictory negation, and for most lexical classes it means nothing at all.

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