From xod@thestonecutters.net Wed Aug 25 09:46:27 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C00uo-0006Lt-PX for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:46:27 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3956148001 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:21:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <412CC24A.6020205@thestonecutters.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:46:02 -0400 From: xod User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting References: <4880254.1093440461021.JavaMail.johnatl@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4880254.1093440461021.JavaMail.johnatl@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 740 X-Approved-By: xod@thestonecutters.net 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: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners John Johnson wrote: >I see this format used in a lot of lojban references: >.a'a 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? > >TIA, > JJ > > The second column is the neutral value (created by cu'i) and the third is the negative value (created by nai). So: .a'a = attentive .a'acu'i = inattentive .a'anai = avoiding Sometimes it's hard to find an English keyword that exactly pertains to these ideas. -- Iraqi Olympic Soccer Coach Adnan Hamad: "You cannot speak about a team that represents freedom. We do not have freedom in Iraq, we have an occupying force. This is one of our most miserable times. To be honest with you, even our happiness at winning is not happiness because we are worried about the problems in Iraq, all the daily problems that our people face back home, so to tell you the truth, we are not really happy."