Re: [lojban] vrici cimei

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> 2010/10/26 Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
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>> "anything which exhibits a  quaility Q of not-being-able-to-Y
>> which measures somewhere between 0 and X's value of Q (inclusive) can
>> Y, but probably nothing whose value of Q is higher than X's value of
>> Q".
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> Shouldn't that be just "X is surprisingly good at Q"?
>

  Only if you mean that in the sense that it's a surprise that X can
do it at all, not in the sense of X is in any way expert at Y (like
the proverbial dancing bear).  The statement you quoted, however,
referred to ALL things, not just X, as long as they  at least as good
at Y as X is. (Which is the positive way of expressing it, rather than
the confusing negative way I laid out).

          --gejyspa

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