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From Lojban to English :
Word: je'aunai [jbovlaste]
Type: cmavo-compound
Gloss Word: permitting known errors in the sense of "discursive"
Gloss Word: allowing some room for error or incompleteness in the sense of "discursive"
selma'o: UI3*
Definition: discursive: correcting/corrective/correction -
inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible
errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) errordiscursive:
correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral
toward the presence of possible errors - permitting
(known/likely/plausible) error/incompleteness/approximation
Notes: Not quite lying since this construct alerts the audience in
good faith to the presence of (known/plausible/likely) errors
or "incomplete truths" in the utterance; the plausibility and
pertinence of the presence of such errors is subject to the
utterer's judgment, opinion, knowledge, philosphy, desire to
draw attention to them at that stage in the discussion, belief,
etc. - in other words, absolute Truth (such as in an
existential sense external to the utterer) does not necessarily
result in the utterance of this construct, even if errors may
be present. Potentially useful for academic or technical
honesty. "Error" may be rendered as "incompleteness of truth"
or "approximation" in this context.