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Re: [lojban] An Interesting Use for a Rafsi



la tsani cu cusku di'e
Let's semi-systematically define lujvo using this rafsi as follows.

narbo'e -> brode FA lo su'u naku zo'u ...

Therefore, {nardji lo nu do farlu} means {.i mi djica lo nu naku do
farlu}, which is more accurately representative of my actual desires
than to say {.i mi na djica lo nu do farlu}.

This seems to me to be the same as {narfaubo'e}:

narfaubo'e -> brode FA lo su'u na fasnu fa ...

   (1) mi narfaudji lo nu do farlu
       "I want you not to fall." ("I want your fall not to happen")

And then I suppose another for predications:

narje'ubo'e -> brode FA lo su'u na jetnu fa ...

Though this one seems less useful when paired with {djica}. It works well with other jvotertau, however.

The -nar- scheme can be applied to other brivla as well giving us
interesting results.

e.g. {.i mi narju'o lo du'u lo mamta cu te vecnu lo cidja} "I know that
mom didn't buy food."

Here, {narje'uju'o} *would* work:

   (2) mi narje'uju'o lo du'u lo mamta cu te vecnu lo cidja
       "I know that "Mom bought food" is not true."

(sounds much like {jifyju'o}!)

In the event that the selbri on the right of -nar- contains no
abstractions, then we assume to obvious interpretation of -nar- which is
to negate only the selbri, otherwise done by performing a bridi-final
negation.

e.g. {.i mi nardu'a lo plise do} -> {.i mi dunda lo plise do naku}.

This seems reasonable.

All in all, I think that this is a very powerful tool, not to mention
that it allows is to modify the internal semantics of an abstraction
from the outside, which is generally not possible.

I won't make a judgement yet, but I'm worried it might be confusing. It also seems as though the same can be achieved through {narfau-} and {narje'u-}/{jif-}, but an argument could perhaps be made that {nar-} would make a good generalized abbreviation of those.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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