From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 22 23:28:02 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3534 ; Thu, 22 Jun 95 23:28:00 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 22 Jun 95 02:21:13 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa16821; 22 Jun 95 3:21 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4481; Wed, 21 Jun 95 22:18:59 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4912; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 21:56:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 19:44:55 EDT Reply-To: jorge@phyast.pitt.edu Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@phyast.pitt.edu Subject: Re: xanka To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Message-ID: <9506220321.aa16821@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R la djan cusku di'e > Au contraire. The German word "Angst" means "anxiety", but in philosophical > use (including in English, where it is a le'avla) it means precisely > "anxiety without an object, free-floating anxiety". This might be described > as "le za'i xe'a catlu da poi bancu le xe'a janco", where "xe'a" is the > lambda variable. This is an example, BTW, of lambda variables in event > abstractions. It sounds more like paranoia than angst, but I have to admit that it's a good example. It sort of kills my plea for {ke'a} as the lambda variable. (Also, I would use {ka} instead of {za'i}, but that's beside the point.) Jorge