Subject: Re: [lojban] na nei

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:55:06 GMT

la tsali cu cusku di'e

>At first glance, it seems to mean "this sentence is false". But, I
>remember reading somewhere in the grammar that double negatives don't
>cancel each other out - they reinforce each other. Is this correct?

Double negatives do cancel out (see example 2.11 on page 372),
but what you probably remember is that {na go'i} after a
negative sentence simply repeats the sentence, the new
{na} substitutes the original one, it is not added on to it,
so they don't cancel out (example 9.4 on page 385).

I can't think of any context where {nei} would be useful.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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