Re: Mr. Bird, negation, and *ivorousness

And Rosta scripsit:

> If Lojban allows this, then "Mr Bird is carnivorous" is true on a reading
> as "Within contextually given spatiotemporal parameters, Mr Bird is
> carnivorous".

It does, of course: "noroi" is not absolute, but means "never within
a defaulted interval, a default amount of time away from the present."

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