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Re: [engelang] xorban summary

I get lost in the new predicates and what not whose explanation I have not yet dug out of the detritus, but these seem fairly straightforward.  Both are true, though I would say rather odd, because there are cats and non-cats. Or, I suppose, one might say that HaShem catizes and also non-catizes.  And so on for various other stories. 


From: Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com>
To: engelang@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [engelang] xorban summary

 


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

Let me correct that, 

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

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

No tricks intended, which sentence if any is true, and why.

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