Re: [lojban] Gerunds, infinitives and other technicalities

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

But, I can give some of these:
lo nu na facki fi le danfu
An event of not finding [an answer to] the question. This says nothing about whether any finding of anything else happens.
lo nu facki fi na'e le danfu
An event of finding [an answer to] something other than the question
This asserts that finding does happen, but that it does *not* involve the question
lo nu na facki fi da
This asserts that no finding happens (assuming {da} isn't already bound in some fashion).

.a'o sidju .i mu'o mi'e latros

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:

All of them at the same time? That's just not going to happen; that's a level and type of ambiguity Lojban won't put up with.

mu'o mi'e .latros.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:

>  le nu na facki fi le danfu
>
> (Note that there are a variety of ways to write the latter, depending on exactly which sort of "not" you have in mind; such as finding things, but not that which is the answer, or not finding anything at all, or finding something interesting but not the answer, or finding an answer not to the Question...)

This is quite complicated, because it may be all of these cases.   I
mean, is there a way to translate all of these possibilities in a
minimalist way ?

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