Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: RE:not only

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:30:09 EDT

In a message dated 4/18/2001 12:49:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> Oh, the Chinese are doing it the pretty common and old-fashioned way: 
> jin3 ... er2 qie3 - bu dann/jiin ... erl chyee) which is 
> "not only ... and/but moreover" almost like in Lojban 
> {gi'epo'onai lo'e ratcu giji'a lo'e mlatu cu citka lo rectu}!
> for example: (bu jin shi xiaohai erqie da ren ye genzhe yiqi wan):
> the kids but also the grown-ups/adults shared in playing.
> 
But does this "not only" bear any relationship to "only"? That is, would 
"Only the children play" (I am flying blind here) start off with dan4/jin3 
shi xiaohai ...?