Re: [lojban] scalars and portion selbri

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

What about {sela'u}?

On 13 July 2012 12:15, djandus <jandew@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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