Shades of blue

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

Steven Belknap asks:
> How would one say,
>
> Your eyes are slightly blue.

        lei do kanla cu tolmutce blanu

> Your skin is somewhat blue.

        le do pilka cu nalmutce blanu

> Your mood is rather blue.

        le do selcni cu milxe blanu

> Your language is quite blue.

        le do bangu cu mutce blanu

> Your blood is extremely blue.

        le do ciblu cu tcerai blanu

Blue mood and language are strange. They wouldn't normally be said
to be blue in Lojban.

And:
> >The way I'd like to interpret it is as the extent to which the sumti
> >properly belong in the tersumti. If you take the view that membership
> >of a category is not clear-cut but is a matter of degree, then I
> >reckon it should be {ni} that allows us to speak of such a degree.
> >Thus {lo ni ti blanu} would, roughly, mean "how blue this is".

Maybe. Then I would say it is more or less equivalent to
{le ka ti blanu la'u makau}.

Jorge