From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 04 23:09:18 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EN2Sh-0004jl-4z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:09:07 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EN2Sg-0004je-RP for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:09:07 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:09:06 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: adverbs to indicate whose standard is used Message-ID: <20051005060906.GX16570@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <433DE0C1.1060301@gulik.co.nz> <20051001054113.GQ1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <1128492006.7682.8.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1128492006.7682.8.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10717 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:00:06PM -0700, Theodore Reed wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 22:41 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:05:05PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik > > wrote: > > > Matt Arnold wrote: > > > > > > >A friend of mine blogged the following: > > > > > > > >"We need a couple of new adverbs (or maybe I just need to > > > >find existing ones) that indicate whose definition of a word > > > >we are using: our's, our subculture's, or society-at-large's. > > > >They need to be simple enough to insert comfortably into > > > >casual conversation; single syllable, and preferably not > > > >syllables that could be mistaken for other adverbs. > > > > > > How about "du'o", based on djuno? > > > > Certainly a BAI of some kind, but djuno doesn't work very well > > here, as it's about factual knowledge. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but why hasn't anyone suggested using > evidentials? > > lo ka'u xlali nixli Because you can only tag one "culture" with ka'u. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.