Re: [lojban] RE: "except the cat"

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la pycyn cusku di'e

> Old logician's rule: "All except the cat ..." = "Only the cat not..." =
> "Everything if not ... then is the cat".  But usually we want to say (as
> logicians often do not) that the cat does not... as well as that nothing 
> else
> does.  So "Everything not ... if and only if  is the cat"

Yes, all that is logical, but too cumbersome in many cases.
What I would want is something to tag a sumti as an exception,
I don't want to have to write two logically connected sentences.

co'o mi'e xorxes


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