Re: `at least one ' vrs `one or more'

["Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" <lcrocker@MERCURY.COLOSSUS.NET>]

> >I have to agree with Jorge--I got it wrong the first time, and
> >that sentence means the former.  I should have used {na'e}, since
> >I intended the meaning "I dislike some cats".  The only way that
> >{mi nelci lo mlatu} can be false is if I dislike /all/ cats.
>
> Shouldn't that be polar negation {to'e nelci} instead?  Opposite of
> like, rather than something other than like, which might include love,
> for example.

{to'e nelci} is probably the best way to say "dislike", but I think
na'e works in this case as well, even though the English gloss of
"other than" doesn't seem quite right; in English, "other-than-like"
conjures up different emotions as you point out, but I don't think
that's the most natural Lojban interpretation of {na'e nelci}, which
more likely refers to points on the like-scale (I could be rather
indifferent to some cats, for example, rather than actively
disliking them).

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