Subject: [lojban] Re: ynai

From: "robin.bcc" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 02:01:28 -0400

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 18:30, Craig wrote:
> 
>>>".y" is in selma'o Y, not UI - can it really be negated?
>>
>>Y shouldn't be negatable. Y is not negatable in actual usage. The Book does
>>not mention Y being negatable. Jbofi'e thinks Y is negatable. Jordan tells
>>me that the BNF disagrees. Hrm, looks like Y is not negatable.
> 
> 
> What about {mi viska le bloti .ui .y. nai}?

The ".y." is outside the grammar of the sentence, rather like an English 
adverbial. Either the sentence is ungrammatical, or we apply that rule 
(i.e. don't apply scope rules to selma'o Y), in which case I suppose it 
would come out as "I see the boat. Cool, er, not."

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