From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Sun May 07 10:56:46 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14453 invoked from network); 7 May 2000 17:56:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 May 2000 17:56:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 May 2000 17:56:32 -0000 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (IDENT:robin@fast3.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.28]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e47Hwh016111 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:58:43 +0300 (EET DST) Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Message-ID: <39185112.BF2CC4AA@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:55:31 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Intro and questions References: <62.31e11b7.264458e0@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Robin turner pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/4/00 8:11:57 PM CST, taral@taral.net writes: > <> > For starters, mi na prane, but that may be too strong. Indefinitely, mi na'e > prane, but that misses the "far from" too. So maybe mi no'e prane, though > neutral doesn't seem to fit the scale of perfection -- unless it means "about > as far along as most" Other possibilities go to tanru: traji na'e prane or, > depending on what exactly you mean, mutce na'e prane, milxe na'e prane. I > don't think ze'u (or zu, though it does make sense about learning lojban) > will do. {mi na prane} is fairly meaningless unless we specify in what respect one is not perfect (i.e. fill in the second place). I'd just use an attitudinal like {ga'inai} co'o mi'e robin.