From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Thu Aug 31 22:11:19 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11592 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2000 05:11:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Sep 2000 05:11:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2000 05:11:18 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA06568 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 01:13:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009010513.BAA06568@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Even Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:13:34 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell In going over old mails, I came across Jorge Llambias saying had hadn't found a satisfactory word for 'even', as in 'even the cat wants to go'. What about ji'a .ue ? I think that expresses what I would mean by 'even' in that phrase, to wit: "also, and surprisingly, the cat wants to go". Another option, for a different tone, might be: ji'a .a'u I also have bitched about this issue in the past, but having noticed these two solutions, I'm finding that I _like_ the ability to break 'even' into it's component thoughts. After all, the goal, at least for me, is to not think in English. -Robin, nowhere near there yet. -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Mistweave's admission was an appalling understatement. His right elbow had been crushed ... Yet he had spent the entire day in motion ... And the only claim he made for himself was that the pain was "considerable".