Re: Almost & barely

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

>la kris cusku di'e
>
>> How about things like:
>>
>>   mi pu milxe pencu ta
>>   mi pu bradanre pencu ta
>>   mi pu jibni nalpencu ta
>
>{bradanre} (or {camdanre}) is too specific to {pencu}, I was looking
>for a more general solution to "it almost happened" and "it barely
>happened".

Fair enough, but one possibility is that there is no general solution and
that one would have to find something semantically appropriate for each
circumstance. Is that more logical/lojbanic than English?  Less so?  I'm not
sure.



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