From johnatl@mac.com Wed Aug 25 09:58:53 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.97]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C016r-0006jq-Ho for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:53 -0700 Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i7PGwtJd014578 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (user-11fai10.dsl.mindspring.com [66.245.72.32]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id i7PGwed2020564 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:58:05 -0400 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: John Johnson To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20040825164143.GA1165@hvf-bs.net> Message-Id: X-archive-position: 743 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: johnatl@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Thanks Jens-Wolfhard and la xorxes. I guess everyone just knows that, except me! It's very confusing to my beginner's mind. I'm thinking, "Does it mean all three? How can that be?" la xorxes, your name reminds me of another question: when your lojban name is pronounced, the final s is pronounced too? I assume it must be, since there are no silent letters. Thanks again, JJ On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke wrote: > 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] > >