po'o entails ja'a?

[Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>]

la djan. di'e cusku

> > I express doubts because although I've not checked in the Book
> > whether John invented some proper grammar for po`o, I remember
> > when it was introduced amid a great fog of illogicality and
> > confusion about "only" - the debate was "solved" by introducing
> > a word in UI (i.e. with pretty much vague semantics) glossed
> > as "only".

> It means "There is no parallel example which differs only
> in the object to which po'o is attached."

The definition you have given does not indicate that the example >must< be
true.  In English, whenever we use "only" it has this additional condition.

       I only read newspapers.
Means:
    1. I read newspapers.
    2. There is no other action that I do to newspapers.

>From your definition I may or may not read newspapers.  Semi-formal symbolic
logic definitions would help to clarify things.

> Does
>        .ei mi na klama
> mean that I am not obliged to come, or that I am obliged not
> to come, or what?

"I am obliged to not come".  ".einai mi klama" is "I am not obliged to come".

ni'oco'omi'e dn.