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Re: [lojban] na nei


la tsali cu cusku di'e


At first glance, it seems to mean "this sentence is false".  But, I
remember reading somewhere in the grammar that double negatives don't
cancel each other out - they reinforce each other.  Is this correct?


Double negatives do cancel out (see example 2.11 on page 372),
but what you probably remember is that {na go'i} after a
negative sentence simply repeats the sentence, the new
{na} substitutes the original one, it is not added on to it,
so they don't cancel out (example 9.4 on page 385).

I can't think of any context where {nei} would be useful.

co'o mi'e xorxes


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