| In a message dated 3/12/2001 11:42:21 AM Central Standard Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes: <i assume you meant PU'O & TU'A>As I said, fingers not work so good. <i'm not sure SNADA & FLIBA in that context are more than saying: BA'O or BA'ONAI TRENE> Well, I neither have nor have not been a train in any interestiing sense, I suppose (Grice goo again) xorxes about the same time (on &): <>An alternative, which I haven't thought through the implications of, would >be "almost P" = "in most relevant alternative worlds, P", and "barely >P" = "in most relevant alternative worlds, not P". Yes, but Lojban is no better than English at expressing this in an elegant manner.> Actually, for at least one kind of altworlds Lojban has it pretty nice:the inchoative and superfective (maybe some of the others) are just that sort of thing: in most of the relevantly similar worlds the inchoative becomes initiative, the superfective has already ended. This was what I got from & in my suggestion. barely 100 = panono su'i so'u not quite 100 = panono vu'u so'u Throw in a {su'e} for safety. |