[lojban] Re: na scope. Again.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> Does {mi na nelci gi'e djica} mean:
> 
>     I do not enjoy, and I desire
> 
> or
> 
>     I do not enjoy, and I do not desire
> 
> ?

It is definitely not the second one, but it might
be:

      I do not both enjoy and desire

The three meanings can be unambiguously expressed thusly:

(1) mi ge na nelci gi djica
(2) mi ge na nelci gi na djica
(3) mi na ge nelci gi djica

The parser would suggest that {mi na nelci gi djica} 
corresponds to (1), but sometimes we don't pay any heed
to what the parser says in these matters, especially
when {na} is involved.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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