Re: [lojban] la snime blabi

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Ah, I see there is some user support for the construct "na ru'e"  (
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?topics_offset=1&forumId=1&comments_parentId=7384&fullscreen=y
> ) for "almost".  But I don't like it, and I also don't see it supported in
> official places like the CLL and
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section%3A+Intensifiers .... I would have
> used jibni vanci or pu'o vanci

"pu'o" works for temporal "almost", but not in general. It wouldn't
work for "almost white" for example.

"jibni vanci" is a type of "vanci", isn't it? But "almost X" is a type
of "not X", not a type of "X". You could use "vanci jibni" or "jibni
lo vanci" if you don't like "na ru'e". And you need to find something
for its companion "ja'a ru'e" = "barely", presumably "jibni na'e bo
..."

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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