[lojban] scalars and portion selbri

[djandus <jandew@gmail.com>]

So, I'm really hoping this is straightforward.

A long time ago, I wanted to say to somepony, "I'm halfway there."

The easy way out is {mi xadba klama}

But then I tell myself, this is Lojban, we have scalar negation, we should have scalar progress be easy to express. As usual, at first I found nothing, but now I have too many options and no way to tell them apart anymore.

I get je'a, na'e, no'e, to'e. Those are cool. I don't expect them to be too useful here. However, it's probably a good idea to go ahead and tell me now if {je'a/no'e klama} makes any sense whatsoever.

What the hay is va'e? si'e? seci'u? Which, if any, applies here?

I have ideas for what they all mean, but the way they're defined altogether, especially the unaltered ci'e, confuse the hay out of me. (ciste doesn't mention scalar negation at all!)

So you know, my ideal would be a nice, succinct way to plug any number into something, like {pi xa ji'i mu} to get "I'm about 65% there." Even better would be knowing how the hay to use all these other things.

mu'o mi'e djos.

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