Subject: Re: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:37:02 +0200

Jorge Llambias wrote:
> Would {jibni snada} be "just barely caught it" and {snada jibni}
> "almost caught it"? That would be fun.

Yes, in fact that can work, I think, thanks to the flexibility
of tanru. All it takes is interpreting {jibni snada} as
`succeed narrowly' and {snada jibni} as `approach success'.

> We really need a lujvo that means something like:
> 
> x1 just barely/scarcely/hardly/minimally is/does x2.

Seconded.

--Ivan