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[lojban] Re: Translating "even"

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can there be extreme and "more" extreme? It's either extreme or not extreme.

"Extreme" can have an absolute or a relative sense. See for example:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extreme
senses 2, 4, 6. "utmost or exceedingly great".

In any case, we don't need to quibble about the definition of
"extreme". The point is that "even X" requires X to be an outlier, but
it usually also allows another "even Y" where Y is even more of an
outlier than X.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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