Subject: Re: [lojban] hardly

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:53:41 EST

In a message dated 11/1/2001 11:47:05 AM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> Subj: [lojban] hardly
> Date: 11/1/2001 11:47:05 AM Central Standard Time
> From: [email-masked] (A.W.T.)
> To: [email-masked]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'd like to express "hardly/scarcely in Lojban.
> Thought of something around PAPA:
> the opposite of {piso'a} - in English given as "almost the whole of" - is 
> {piso'u} - "a tiny part of"
> 
> I'd like better expressing: "almost/next to nothing of" 
> 
> Any help?
> 

{piso'u} is really pretty good, but logically {piso'ano} ought to work for 
the tigher meaning.