From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Tue Mar 13 06:48:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: Lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 13 Mar 2001 14:48:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 41119 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 14:48:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2001 14:48:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 14:48:26 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:31:14 +0000 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:48:49 +0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:48:31 +0000 To: jjllambias , Lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] barely/almost (was: Re: Regional difference ??) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta Jorge: #l and cusku di'e # #>To me, these are a JA'A sort of thing: "almost" =3D "to a small #>extent NA" and "barely =3D "to a small extent JA'A". (And "very" =3D #>"to a large extent JA'A" and "not at all" =3D "to a large extent NA". # #That could be: # #naru'e =3D almost #ja'aru'e =3D barely #ja'asai =3D very #nasai =3D not at all How lovely! And those are gramamtical? #>An alternative, which I haven't thought through the implications of, woul= d #>be "almost P" =3D "in most relevant alternative worlds, P", and "barely #>P" =3D "in most relevant alternative worlds, not P". # #Yes, but Lojban is no better than English at expressing this #in an elegant manner. Well go with your beautiful suggestions above, if they're licit. --And.