Subject: Re: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu?

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:47:11 -0500

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> To affirm or negate a specific part of the sentence we use {naku} or {na'e}. 
> {na'e} negates one word, so it behaves like {xu}

Not necessarily: na'e ke ... ke'e scalar-negates the whole of "...".
The more important distinction, though, is bridi negation (na) vs.
scalar negation (na'e).

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