Re: [lojban] cmavo rafsi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday, February 12, 2012 23:04:07 Jacob Errington wrote:
> In perusing the wordlists, I noticed that [na] has a rafsi, [nar].
> What exactly is the point of this rafsi? It seems like no defined lujvo use
> it.
> What is its interaction with [na] outside the lujvo?
> What happens it it's used lujvo-internally: [rodnarbrode] ?

It's pretty close in meaning to "nal-". Possible differences are:
*"nalviska" implies having eyes but being unable to see, or having no sight 
but other senses, whereas "narviska" means simply not seeing. So I'd describe 
a table as "narviska", but not "nalviska".
*If "nar-" is followed by more than one rafsi, it negates the whole following 
string of rafsi, whereas if "nal-" is followed by more than one rafsi, it 
negates just the next one, or just the seltau.

Pierre
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