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Re: Random questions about "not" and "and"

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Friday, December 5, 2008, 16:48
> Njenfalgar <njenfalgar@...> wrote: > > Negating adjectives would rather be done by deriving an opposite, > like, "The ball is unblue." > > 2008/12/3 Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> > > > While parsing some sentences, it occurred to me that the
sentence: "The
> > ball is not blue." can be interpreted two different ways: > > > > the ball is-not blue. > > the ball is not-blue. > > > > "is-not" can be treated as a verb (or "not" taken as an adverb),
or
> > "not-blue" can be treated as an adjective.
I forgot that Senjecas has a negating prefix n-!!!! gelos nmodhros esa. ball not-blue is. Perfectly good Senjecas. Forget all about that privative prefix v-. Charlie