Re: PLI: "except"

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

>        ko'a krici le du'u la djan po'okau klama
>        She believes that only John goes.
>
>        ko'a krici le du'u la djan po'o klama
>        Only John is such that she believes that he goes.
>
>But since people have turned down my {po'onai} for "except", I still
>don't know how to handle that one.

How about a new lujvo for "only", like {pavgri} (from pamei girzu) or
{pavykai} or something, with the structure "x1 is the only thing with
quality (ka) x2".

   ko'a krici ledu'u la djan. pavgri leka klama
   She believes that John is a singleton-of-things-sharing-the-quality-of going

or just

  ko'a krici ledu'u la djan. klama pavgri
  She believes that John is a goer type of only-thing

Your second sentence could be:

  la djan. pavgri leka ko'a krici ledu'u ke'akau klama
  John's the only one who has the quality that she believes
      that he goes.

(That's not right, is it? -- I need the new lambda variable, which of course
I za'onu'o put in my online dictionary.  You use kau with du'u, ke'a with
POI, and the new PA thingy with ka; right?)

                     ____
 Chris Bogart        \  /  http://www.quetzal.com
 Boulder, CO          \/   cbogart@quetzal.com

 Fuck Censorship!