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on 3/8/02 1:36 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote:
>
> In fact, <mei2> is the negator of <you3> "to have". In Mandarin,
> rather than say "We have no bananas.", we say "We not have bananas."
> ("Wo3men mei2(you) xiang1jiao1.") So, the equivalent would be "Goda
> buten banana."
>
> (This seems a bit more "logical". If there are zero bananas, how can
> we have them?)
As an answer to Kwasi banana, one can answer zoysi banana, without needing
to rearrange the sentence. Also I'm reminded of some Loglan stuff dealing
with propositional calculus, that seems to require, or at least encourage,
the negation of all sorts of things.
But to say Go ten bu banana, seems to imply that I have something, just not
bananas, which leads me to think zoy a more logical way to say 'no bananas'.
Normally, I think, it would be Goda bu ten banana.
I've just about convinced myself that it needs to be either zoype or some
other thing -pe, not bupe.
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