tolmutce

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>> <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >
>> traji na    mutce na      milxe na | milxe           mutce             traji
>> to'e                              no'e                                  je'a
>> |              na'e                |
>
>Why not enrich the scale:
>
>traji (na)      extremely not something
>mutce (na)      very much not something
>milxe (na)      somewhat not something
>tolmutce (na)   very little not something
>nutli           neutral
>tolmutce        very little
>milxe           somewhat
>mutce           very much
>traji           extremely
>
>
>> Given that each of these words have particular places on the scale,
>> treating each term as its own scale is at best ambiguous.
>
>I don't see the problem. What else could {tolmutce} be but "very
>little of"?

Except by context, I would have had no idea in the example where you
first raised it.  Looking at my diagram, where mutce is somewhere in the
non-extreme of one side, I think I would have presumed it to be where
"mutce na" is on the diagram.  ("nalmutce", of course could mean either
"traji" "no'e" or "na")

lojbab