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Re: [lojban-beginners] "Even" in lojban



So how would we differentiate between "I wouldn't do that." (with no weird intonational hints) and "Even I wouldn't do that."

{mi na da'i gasnu ra} vs ... ?

The lion thing was a bad example (to try to show in lojban; I think it was fine for getting across what I meant by "even") because the interesting meaning is split between "so" and "even"

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
My first thought was something like {do xlali se panci fi'o se banzu lo nu da'i lo cinfo cu na nelci lo nu citka do}.  Come to think of it I'm kind of surprised that {banzu} doesn't get a bai cmavo.

Or maybe {ja'e} would be better.  {do xlali se panci ja'e lo nu da'i lo cinfo cu na nelci lo nu citka do}.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:39 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
In the sense of "You smell so bad, even a starving lion wouldn't eat you."

vlasisku says:
do'anai in sense "implying an extreme example"

but I don't really understand {do'a} and {do'anai}, so I figured I'd ask here.


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