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Re: Problems with Abstraction



cu'u la ~mark
>>> mi na citka roda
 >>That means "not everything is eaten by me; something is not
>>eaten by me".
>>To say everything is uneaten: mi citka ro da na ku,
>>or {ro da zo`u mi na citka da}.
>
>I thought "na broda" and "broda naku" were equivalent.  I'm (more)
>confused.

Those two are equivalent, but {na broda roda} and {broda roda naku}
are not. In the first, the negation comes before the quantifier: not true
for all, but maybe yes for some. In the second, it comes after the
quantifier: for each, it is not true.

co'o mi'e xorxes