Wiki page BPFK Section: brivla Negators changed
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:48:17PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> 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}.
That makes sense, and it works. I was about to conclude that {na'e} had no
purpose except to act like {na} with sensible scope (but there's {naku} for
that).
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Rob Speer