Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sOpRJ-0000YmC; Thu, 22 Jun 95 19:49 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 45A15E8A ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:48:47 +0200 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: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199506220937.FAA28895@access4.digex.net> from "Logical Language Group" at Jun 22, 95 05:37:15 am Content-Length: 696 Lines: 13 > 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.