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Re: [lojban] Fw: bridi tail negation



On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:39 AM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> coi ro do
>
> I asked this question on lojba-beginners btu nobody responded.
> Can someone here please answer it?
>

  Actually, you never left this question on lojban-beginners.


> I've just translated
>
> "It wasn't much fun sitting up there in their tree house not speaking.
> "
> as
>
> {.i na'e se zanfri fa lonu zutse ne'i le ricyzda gi'enai tavla}
>
> But suppose I had left it as:
>  {.i na'e se zanfri fa lonu zutse ne'i le ricyzda gi'e na tavla}?
>
> Would the negation have covered the whole bridi or just the bridi tail?
>

  My belief is that it would also just negate the tail.  More
problematic to me is a na in front of the first selbri.   The CLL
doesn't unfortunately cover these cases.

                      --gejyspa