[lojban] Re: Empasizing an entire structure in forethought?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:59:59PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > That fits with my understanding of {ji'asai}. I always use
> > {ji'asai} for "even". 
> 
> I use {ji'a} for "also".  You're saying that the {sai} alters the
> meaning to make it an exceptional "also"?

An _extreme_ also.

   i le mlatu ku ji'asai cmila
   Even the cat laughed.

That's a way of saying that everyone laughed. It says that the cat 
laughed, not just in addition to someone else doing it, but in 
addition to everyone else doing it, the cat being an extreme case. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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