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[lojban] Re: What does "anyway" mean anyway?



On 5/19/06, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org> wrote:
> Hmm... Were I to translate this into Hebrew, I would use a word that
> means something like "at all". Maybe the meaning is "whose line is it,
> if it's anyone's at all."  Consider that "anyway" added to a yes/no
> question doesn't do this: "is he coming anyway?" is a normal question
> with "anyway" modifying the conditions under which he might come.  So
> maybe there's something like "is this question really even valid to
> start with?  Should you be answering it with {na'i}?"
This sense of "anyway" implies an incomplete connective - kind of like {.iseju ta klama ti}.

The way teenagers use "anyway", I'd translate it as {.a'ucai} or {.a'acai ni'o} ;-)

robin.tr


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