Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 20935 invoked from network); 7 May 2000 17:55:51 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 May 2000 17:55:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 11226 invoked by uid 40001); 7 May 2000 17:56:49 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 11223 invoked from network); 7 May 2000 17:56:48 -0000 Received: from ej.egroups.com (208.50.144.75) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 May 2000 17:56:48 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2567-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by ej.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 May 2000 17:56:47 -0000 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> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: lojban@egroups.com References: <62.31e11b7.264458e0@aol.com> From: Robin turner MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:55:31 +0300 Subject: Re: [lojban] Intro and questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1146 Lines: 26 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Up to 70% OFF Luggage! Buy Now and Shipping is Free. http://click.egroups.com/1/4014/3/_/17627/_/957722206/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com