Re: na'enai

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

> 1. What, then, happens to {po`o}? Does it then mean something more
>    like "merely"?

I think there are several synonyms for 'only' such as 'just', 'merely' and
 'except' that more or less amount to the
same thing.

How does one say "A and B only"?  For example, "Only John and Jim are drinking
 coffee", it seems to me that
the only of one exculdes the other.

> 2. Does using {na`enai} violate the spirit or letter of the
>    baseline?

The letter.  "nai" is not allowed to follow "na'e" under the baselined grammar.
 Spiritually, I would say it is sound.

>3. How would one say "He is not french and he is non-french"?
>    - Since lots of people have announced their wish to say such
>    things easily, is there a simple way to do it? Maybe
>    {ti na`enai na`e fraso} might be satisfactory?

    .i ko'a fraso .ije ko'a na'e fraso

ni'o co'omi'e dn.