Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sOUon-0000YjC; Wed, 21 Jun 95 21:48 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id BE506DFD ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 20:47:53 +0200 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 14:49:05 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: scales, tolcipni X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 40 > >I see {milxe} more as {normutce}. {tolmutce} is very little. > > So we are starting with different ideas of milxe. Given a scalar function, > my intent for these was: > > > <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > traji na mutce na milxe na | milxe mutce traji > to'e no'e je'a > | na'e | Why not enrich the scale: traji (na) extremely not something mutce (na) very much not something milxe (na) somewhat not something tolmutce (na) very little not something nutli neutral tolmutce very little milxe somewhat mutce very much traji extremely > Given that each of these words have particular places on the scale, > treating each term as its own scale is at best ambiguous. I don't see the problem. What else could {tolmutce} be but "very little of"? > Is to'e milxe > some kind of mutce? Or some kind of milxe na I don't know. I never included it because unlike {mutce}, {milxe} doesn't seem to present a natural scale by itself. {milxe} is to me the neutral in the {mutce} scale, and the opposite of the neutral is still the neutral. Jorge