From rspeer@MIT.EDU Wed Aug 25 10:01:59 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.76]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1C019p-0006oD-Pm for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:01:58 -0700 Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i7PH1vT4022699 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i7PGpQIW002531 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from torg.mit.edu (TORG.MIT.EDU [18.208.0.57]) ) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i7PGpPpq022945 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:51:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rob by torg.mit.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C00zu-00049D-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:51:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:51:42 -0400 From: Rob Speer To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting Message-ID: <20040825165142.GA15543@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org 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> X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-archive-position: 741 X-Approved-By: rspeer@MIT.EDU 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: rspeer@MIT.EDU 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 > > 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? Yep. "a'acu'i" means "inattentive", and "a'anai" means "avoiding". -- Rob Speer