From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 13 09:38:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 13 Mar 2001 17:38:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 22153 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 17:38:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2001 17:38:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 17:38:20 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id MAA23861 for lojban@onelist.com; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:44:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:44:59 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] barely/almost (was: Re: Regional difference ??) Message-ID: <20010313124458.C12066@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from arosta@uclan.ac.uk on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:48:31PM +0000 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:48:31PM +0000, And Rosta wrote: > Jorge: > #l and cusku di'e > # > #>To me, these are a JA'A sort of thing: "almost" = "to a small > #>extent NA" and "barely = "to a small extent JA'A". (And "very" = > #>"to a large extent JA'A" and "not at all" = "to a large extent NA". > # > #That could be: > # > #naru'e = almost > #ja'aru'e = barely > #ja'asai = very > #nasai = not at all > > How lovely! And those are gramamtical? Yes. I like them as well. rlpowell@calum> jbofihe -x mi ja'aru'e klama le zarci [([klama1 (go-er(s)):] mi /I, me/) /[is, does]/ <<^ja'a /{AFFIRM}/ ru'e /{weak..}/ klama /go-ing/^>> ([klama2 (destination(s)):] le /the/ zarci /trading place(s)/)] Looks fine. And it even binds properly! Sweet! Although I'd just use na or na'e for the last case. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP