From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
To: "lojban" <lojban@onelist.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:48:56 -0300
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From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>

>Logical Language Group wrote:
>
>> I would take tolxamgu as being not merely bad, but as far from good as
>> possible on the unspecified scale.  

I disagree. I don't think {tolxamgu} means the worst possible, that
would be {tolxagrai}. To me {tolxamgu} is pretty much synonymous 
with {xlali}

>> nalxamgu is also "bad", but is more
>> akin to xlali - having the full range of other-than-good.  

But {xlali} does not have the full range of other-than-good!
It doesn't cover the "indifferent" part of the range.

cu'u la robin
>What about doubleplus-ungood then? ;-)

That would be {tolxautcetce}: mutce le ka mutce le ka to'e xamgu

Although it wouldn't be a very good translation for the Orwellian 
word because in Lojban it is a perfectly ordinary word, without 
any funny weirdness about it.

co'o mi'e xorxes


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