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Re: [engelang] xorban summary


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:13 AM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
 

I don't understand by what logic the first pair are false and the second true. My initial thinking is that they're all false (and o'e should be sa sma) but would all be true with a different  kind of negation (replacing na mlta by li mlti na hcaki).


Okay, that may be reasonable.  Let's imagine two separate but utterly identical universes/worlds/situations/cases identical in all respects, containing the same entities, history, etc.   The universes are similar to ours, and everything in these two universes is the same as each other until a certain moment in which some interlocutor identical in those worlds up until that moment says a sentence.

In U1, he says: "la sma mlte."

In U2, he says: "la sma na mlte.

Which sentence if any is true, and why.