[lojban] Re: Translating "even"

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

2009/9/29 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> "Even" only indicates an extreme case, not necessarily the most
> extreme of all. You can say "Even John likes this cake. Why, it's so
> good, even Jane likes it." This requires John to be an extreme case,
> but Jane to be an even more extreme case.
>
> Similarly: "She was not concerned. She was not even awake. As a matter
> of fact, she was not even alive." So it is usually possible to add
> even more extreme cases.


How can there be extreme and "more" extreme? It's either extreme or not extreme.


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