Subject: Re: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:50:50 -0500

At 09:37 PM 03/14/2001 +0200, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
>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.

Where would no'e fit into all this? How about na'ena'e (non-failure)?

I prefer milxe snada and milxe nalsnada to jibni.

lojbab
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