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Re: [lojban] Does {na nei} work like that?



On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 20 November 2010 16:06:36 ianek wrote:
> coi
> {na nei} should work like {na go'i}. According to LLC 15.9, {na}
> replaces previous negation, not negates it. Just like this:
> A: i le vi karce na crino
> B: i na go'i
>
> A: this car isn't green
> B: it isn't
>
> So {na nei} should mean "this negative statement is indeed true", or
> I'm awfully wrong.

That's what I think too. What happens, though, when you have several {na} or
{ja'a} in front of a selbri?

I think the right way to say "this statement is false" is "dei jitfa".

Pierre
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From Robin Lee Powell's signature:
 
Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei".

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