From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Mar 14 11:00:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 14 Mar 2001 19:00:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 62613 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2001 19:00:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 14 Mar 2001 19:00:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Mar 2001 19:00:23 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id OAA22796 for lojban@onelist.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:07:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:07:01 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [: Re: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc] Message-ID: <20010314140701.M2685@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:26:42PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > > > > That completes the circle, since {pu'o} got into this discussion > > exactly to deal with "come close to" in this sense when other > > notions seemed to be getting away from the point. So now we have > > three suggestions (have I missed any essentially different ones?) > > for dealing with "I nearly caught the train" or "I barely caught the > > train" and the like. > > > > Somebody suggested a je nai tense compound early on, and after we had > our discussion on pu'o, I thought that might be the best way. Hence, > something like > > pu ki mi pu'o je banai snada tu'a le trene > > I believe this is the way I would express it myself. I believe you meant pu ki mi pu'o jenai ba snada tu'a le trene since it doesn't parse otherwise. I like that one. -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