Wiki page BPFK Section: brivla Negators changed
Not just any other thing/property but one in the same branch (subsumed by the same category concept). This is (a kind of) contrary negation, where yellow is a negation of blue but not of big (can't be both but may be neither). The freer type (where not yellow may be big) is {na}, but has little real use. There are some other negations (not even counting the various uses of {nai}.
Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU> wrote:On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:14:10AM -0700, webmaster@lojban.org wrote:
> ;na'e (NAhE): Non-. Converts a tanru-unit into another tanru-unit with another meaning. With BO, it converts a sumti into another sumti whose referent is other than the referent of the unconverted sumti.
Is that really all that "na'e" does? In that case, it would be perfectly
reasonable to say:
le gerku cu barda gi'e na'e barda
to say that a certain dog is big, and has some other property besides being big
as well.
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Rob Speer