Re: [lojban] Intro and questions

[Robin turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/4/00 8:11:57 PM CST, taral@taral.net writes:
> <<And how  would I express the idiomatic "I'm _far from_ perfect"? >>
> 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.