Re: "Barely but booleanly"

In a message dated 6/3/2008 14:01:59 PM Central Daylight Time, sai@SAIZAI.COM
writes:


> > I don't understand what it means. "Barely X", which means "almost not X",
> > itself entails "X (is the case)". Give some exx without "barely" in.
> >
>
> It is indeed entailed. The pragma though is that I wanted to emphasize this
> fact (rather than the default pragma of minimizing its salience).
>
> - Sai
>
How about something like "I do X, but just barely"?

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