From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 22 23:30:25 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3565 ; Thu, 22 Jun 95 23:30:24 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 22 Jun 95 16:55:03 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa09564; 22 Jun 95 17:54 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7779; Thu, 22 Jun 95 12:52:23 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4361; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:46:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:47:57 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: xanka X-To: Lojban List To: Iain Alexander In-Reply-To: <199506220937.FAA28895@access4.digex.net> from "Logical Language Group" at Jun 22, 95 05:37:15 am Message-ID: <9506221754.aa09564@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R > If you are looking over your shoulder, even metaphorically, you expect to > spot something that is the obkject of your anxiety. You may not know what > da is, but you expect there to be something. (Maybe Angst is an > xanka-expectation, or even loi xanka be zu'i (rather than zo'e)). A bad example all around, I grant you (see my response to And). But I do think that angst is "loi xanka be zi'o"; there really is no (grammatical) object. This is not expectation, but a general mental state, as one may be in fear without being fearful of anything in particular. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.