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BPFK Super-Section: BAI sumtcita

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:24:03PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> > {mi klama mu'i nai lo nu mi nelci} is "I go, although I don't
> > want to", or "I go, it is not the case that I want to", or "I
> > don't go, though I want to"?
>
> I read it as "It is false that (I go because I want to)"; exactly
> where the part that makes it false is, is not given.

Ummm.

So {mi klama mu'i nai lo nu mi nelci} is equivalent to
{na ku mi klama mu'i lo nu mi nelci}?

That seems like a *bad* idea to me.

-Robin

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