Subject: RE: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:34:08 -0000

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

Better would be:

x1 just barely/scarcely/hardly/minimally is

which avoids lots of awkward tedious sumti raising
kerfuffle.

If you are concerned about the insecure interpretations
of ja'a/na sai/ru'e, then your lujvo could be

ja'a zei ru'e

or else

[opposite-of-mutce] zei ja'a

or

so'a zei ja'a

or whatever.

> >3) Modified affirmatives or denials: {ja'a ru'e} and {na'e ru'e}. Aside 
> >from
> >not being sure about the grammaticality of these (though they seem to pass
> >both parsers) there is the problem that the "near miss" or "near hit" part 
> >is
> >lost truth functionally.
> 
> They are grammatical, but I'm not too enthusiastic about them either.
> Unless we have a convention that that is their meaning, they are
> too vague, a "weak affirmation" could be anything, not necessarily
> a "barely".

Not really a "weak affirmation" -- "moderately true" might be a better way
of capturing it.

--And.