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[lojban-beginners] Re: "With /n/ confidence..."




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From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org
[mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Llambías
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:12 AM
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "With /n/ confidence..."

On 10/18/07, David Cortesi <davecortesi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Although "with N confidence" is pedantic and stuffy in scientific papers,
> such a prefix, if concise, could have more general use in a logical
> language. "I'm 90% sure I will go to the store..." or "the noise in the
> bushes that I am .75 certain is a bear..."  Some useful idioms could
follow,
> like "With zero confidence I assert" as a whimsical way of saying
"baloney",
> etc.

What you describe would have to be a cmavo of selma'o MAI, that
turns a number into an indicator, but here are only two cmavo there
{mai} and {mo'o}, which have a different meaning.

You can always create your own indicator with {sei}, but that's a bit
more wordy (though not much more than in English) for example
{sei mi sonoce'i va'e birti}, {sei mi pizemu va'e birti}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


If a good brivla can be found to convey amount of certainty, you could use
the modal place prefix {fi'o} to add a place to the structure.

mu'omi'e .skaryzgik.