[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: About the negators

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2008 10:08:42 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>>  Do you mean "ti na gucti be li re joi pulgada be li so"?
>
> According to jbofi'e, that's not grammatical either.

jbofi'e doesn't always handle elidable terminators well. How does it
do with "ti na gucti be li re be'o joi pulgada be li so"?

> I'm trying to join the
> bridi-tails. Is there a way to do that in afterthought?

No, not with non-logical connectives. I once proposed adding "GI JOI"
as the afterthought bridi-tail connective for non-logicals, but it was
never approved.


>> > -> ti joigi na gucti li re gi pulgada li so
>> > -> ti joigi naku gucti li re gi pulgada li so
>>
>> I would agree those two are equivalent, although who knows what they
>> mean.
>
> One possible interpretation is "It measures nine inches, or one foot and nine
> inches, or three feet and nine inches, or so on, but not two feet and nine
> inches." But it could also measure a meter and nine inches, or a gram and
> nine inches (as long as the gram isn't two feet long).

Not at all clear to me. Before trying to figure that one out, I'd like
to know what {ti joi gi broda gi brode} means, if anything.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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