From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Sat Nov 20 16:01:00 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41906.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CVf9a-0000WW-B8 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:00:30 -0800 Received: (qmail 81901 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Nov 2004 23:59:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20041120235959.81899.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [201.255.90.56] by web41906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:59:59 PST Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:59:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: Empasizing an entire structure in forethought? To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20041120175240.GR28493@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 9020 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Saturday 20 November 2004 12:01, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On IRC, I had cause to translate "Do not be to quick to deal in > > > death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." > > > > Isn't "even" in this sense {ji'asai}? So you could say {lo ji'asai > > mutce prije}. > > I don't think so. Arnt said (in IRC): > > You're implicitly creating a scale from the wisest to the > dumbest, and saying that the wise cannot see all ends, so > therefore everyone who is less wise can't see it either. That fits with my understanding of {ji'asai}. I always use {ji'asai} for "even". As I understand it, {ji'asai} marks an additional, extreme case, the least likely case. So you are saying that the very wise (in addition to all the other, more likely cases) cannot see all ends. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com