From jens.schicke@hvf-bs.net Wed Aug 25 09:44:39 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.37.51.119] (helo=hvf-bs.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C00t4-0006Js-Ie for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:44:39 -0700 Received: from tau-ceti.homelinux.org (p508E6474.dip.t-dialin.net [80.142.100.116]) (authenticated) by hvf-bs.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7PGhcZ31519 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:43:39 +0200 Received: from drahflow by tau-ceti.homelinux.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C00qF-0000JE-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:41:43 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:41:43 +0200 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting Message-ID: <20040825164143.GA1165@hvf-bs.net> References: <4880254.1093440461021.JavaMail.johnatl@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4880254.1093440461021.JavaMail.johnatl@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i From: Jens-Wolfhard Schicke X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (Wertung=-96.679, benoetigt 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 8.02, BAYES_00 -4.90, LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD -100.00, RCVD_IN_NJABL 0.10, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10) X-MailScanner-From: jens.schicke@hvf-bs.net X-archive-position: 739 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jens.schicke@hvf-bs.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:27:41AM -0400, John Johnson wrote: > I see this format used in a lot of lojban references: > .a'a attentive inattentive avoiding In my reference it says: .a'a attentive attidudinal: attentive - inattentive avoiding > Which I would suppose means .a'a means attentive. But the references > never say what the two or three other columns represent. Is there some > standard modifier that makes .a'a mean inattentive, and one that makes > it mean avoiding? yes... .a'a is attentive [ positive on the scale of attentiviness] .a'acu'i is inattentive [ neutral on the scale of attentiviness] .a'anai is avoiding [ negative on the scale of attentiviness]