From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 03 23:37:05 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JAh72-00081g-Kz for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:37:04 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JAh6u-00080o-Co for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:37:04 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so4636267rvf.46 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:36:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=2239Q9cTtyqlyb0k8Wan0e5nnkLJl79uf16J4j9N4AY=; b=EFN3KVRFqsEzelnMy8mbzpkphxixdcPAui1CEvx61l/s9FEZz2dutKKpqZhDiVNBCWkwt9EyI6A3mJsISRIsglNg8pyWvKBCVM3kgXRQ/QLvZ7IjtoZReV0kJUeTxOFdYz1FFSYzxVDIwCuUCnbLtYtMOrRGEwQsKyOA/0Zo1mY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PSmg4Bp80I7tBu5U42M9Azft42FAl5i/5AY7Xj3M+vDJ+WPH04JxThBMW7GpUdZ+G4u5/BUcwSIl63WilumjB2lVnMk00z2hd81g7JGt8XwIdTbMXjHtRZUrKWTJNJbPF6m5cjGgwckTKaSFxtNTG+9m8WGzCuK+tlQqxdPMgNw= Received: by 10.141.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr782258rvi.67.1199432209782; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:36:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.147.16 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:36:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97f5058c0801032336p1cabd1cer774074f22151cd95@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:36:49 +0800 From: Penguino To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: .uinainai?? In-Reply-To: <20080103222837.9e6eaa7z4k0sggw8@webmail.ixkey.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5698_25432803.1199432209939" References: <20080103222837.9e6eaa7z4k0sggw8@webmail.ixkey.info> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 138 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: spheniscine@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_5698_25432803.1199432209939 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline *pe'i* Since [nai] is polar negation, [.uinainai] would mean the same as [.ui], and not equivalent to English "not unhappy", which might be better expressed as [.uinaicu'i]. I have also been thinking about combinations that might not quite fit the 7-point scale, like [cu'isai] (ex. [a'ucu'isai] strong disinterest), or even [caicai], which is even stronger than [cai] (this should, of course, be used sparingly). ------=_Part_5698_25432803.1199432209939 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline pe'i Since [nai] is polar negation, [.uinainai] would mean the same as [.ui], and not equivalent to English "not unhappy", which might be better expressed as [.uinaicu'i].

I have also been thinking about combinations that might not quite fit the 7-point scale, like [cu'isai] (ex. [a'ucu'isai] strong disinterest), or even [caicai], which is even stronger than [cai] (this should, of course, be used sparingly).
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