From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 11 15:12:31 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LAuhr-00043T-FC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:31 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.244]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LAuhl-00042X-J5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:31 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1369215rvf.46 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:24 -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 :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=iRV1aoJFOO47CPstowr2kxIi/awixVe/G3rbHVhT0p0=; b=eYTVMCPKCrs8o3IOLDtYj+C77WDoEIJQIs+mpKzUDU6T0vmvr6VQ8/UKe5y7PUv5+m x4z7TtI5f8714cKz3LBxytkE0VZNb3M/9bf5nonVzMAF2SEtH0QI1NGXtRKKmmKtHiMI +mL0f6Jd5hbSjwqfnJFWGe3cfLt5RmREru6/I= 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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=F5GoAPmCs2PUvTcJpJGdmHsuI/3lK85qlzrMNC36edmTB9U14ELbLjaLtO13i1q/A1 k8aZrcU/Z83ANWmqnR43jOOUxtWo8yP5MTwpqTHHLogkWacKknKbsBN7E1I891tU9b7v Lmz5rXnNwaQsfLcWdBoLsPZ21D890gSsIb750= Received: by 10.141.193.1 with SMTP id v1mr1535468rvp.186.1229037144476; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.194.15 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560812111512x666a5c3fu8e8dec776739740@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:12:24 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: attitudinals question In-Reply-To: <5715b9300812111452h2771b99cnffea157a0484adfb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5715b9300812111452h2771b99cnffea157a0484adfb@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1082 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Luke Bergen wrote: > Is it legitimate to use attitudinals as regular words? (They are regular words. I think you mean as brivla.) No, they can't be used as brivla directly. > ie. is the following > lojban sentence acceptable? > > xu do .ui > > or does this just mean "are you "? It means "are you?" or "do you?" (or "were you?", or "did you?", or ...) depending on the understood predicate, plus an expression of happiness from the speaker. You could however use an attitudinal to construct a zei-lujvo, for example: xu do ui zei co'e "Are you ui-ish?" mu'o mi'e xorxes