From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Feb 23 22:42:15 2000 X-Digest-Num: 373 Message-ID: <44114.373.2071.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:42:15 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Subject: Re: (no subject) At 12:26 AM 02/24/2000 -0500, BestATN@aol.com wrote: >How do you say in Lojban "I miss you" as a man might say to his wife when >she's in hospital and he has to work? This sounds more attitudinal than anything one would claim with a predicate sentence. The basic attitude of missing someone is probably be'uro'i (lack/absence felt emotionally), which you might color given the situation with o'unai (stress), o'e (closeness), a'a (attentive), and of course .iu. You can also use dai with another attitudinal to indicate empathic identification with how she is feeling (oiro'udai - empathy with her pain). Attitudinals are things which require exploration to see how many ways you can apply them. They are all under selma'o UI (and most words under selma'o UI can be used in some circumstances to indicate attitude or emotional state either alone or as modifiers of other words). lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)