Re: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 09:37 PM 03/14/2001 +0200, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
> Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > Would {jibni snada} be "just barely caught it" and {snada jibni}
> > "almost caught it"? That would be fun.
>
> Yes, in fact that can work, I think, thanks to the flexibility
> of tanru.  All it takes is interpreting {jibni snada} as
> `succeed narrowly' and {snada jibni} as `approach success'.
>
> > We really need a lujvo that means something like:
> >
> >    x1 just barely/scarcely/hardly/minimally is/does x2.

Where would no'e fit into all this?  How about na'ena'e (non-failure)?

I prefer milxe snada and milxe nalsnada to jibni.

lojbab
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