From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 02 09:58:13 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1InzqX-0005ql-Bn for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:13 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1InzqV-0005qa-2r for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:13 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so704558nze for ; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=LQEpNLYyPUQq/bcKKhHYbQlad6sbB01p9FdEzA+vmxg=; b=tzVbMKVqOeLc8T7aopgKygLXbz7C9wFstiTItsD8IUO97GTxWYx5hYZIKHl13h08bgWxz9oev1V/QpY0pjIaq4NfILQbanOn5bS00mz5OxCJcvXvZBExXAr027omk7Jk+wo0F9d+oCdlI+BWpT2r/SHTE9/U1YsMaqUz4BIAbE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=bkGXizz8HuUa0i1jTB8+f4VyK7iyQ6WPv2aIn8ZQ5I28WSZmBcDfv7LOIrDb9LQR+zWqkO1vRjl3L/fHvZN3zeqoXWsGpqqd6vwPGVw0rDSkt3OO73QY1xcOJqquZs7aPjJIQwzOvwzn5F3tqzwDHzgIWwb2rrTzk8KnIT+d3WU= Received: by 10.114.177.1 with SMTP id z1mr2050655wae.1194022686150; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.125.15 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30711020958y7b7ad821k1011a80c5027c20e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:58:06 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] curt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5777 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners "Curt". Example sentence: Didn't you take care of this already? (IM'd to a coworker.) Is there an attitudinal (or combination) for this? I suppose "ga'i" might work, maybe "e'ega'i". And how would the opposite go, to disclaim curtness? (Over IM, you can't use tone of voice, of course.) I'd like an attitudinal that mean "I don't know, but"--something like ".uanai", but not quite, because ".ua" is "discovery", not "knowledge". And I suppose a simple "ga'inai" or "ga'icu'e" would do the trick. Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)