Re: "Barely but booleanly"
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 8:05 |
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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.
--And.
Sai Emrys, On 03/06/2008 04:14:
> I recently had occasion to use a construction like this:
>
> "I only barely, but ??booleanly, feel that way."
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> This was understood, but TTBOMK English lacks a proper word for the meaning
> I was trying to express, i.e. that while it may have been barely X, it was
> still, in fact, X.
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> Does your conlang have this word?
>
> - Sai
>
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