From cowan Sat Mar 6 22:55:32 2010 Subject: Re: lojban recordings To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) From: cowan Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:50:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199509160407.AAA16920@locke.ccil.org> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Sep 15, 95 08:05:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1178 Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Mon Sep 18 09:50:38 1995 X-From-Space-Address: cowan Message-ID: la xorxes. cusku di'e > What does it mean "to acknowledge an offer"? Is it the same as > accepting it? I think that to refuse an offer, one has to do more than "je'e", but that "je'e" alone may pragmatically be understood as acceptance. > And what exactly does "i'a" mean? > > .i'a UI1 acceptance attitudinal: acceptance - blame > > What has acceptance got to do with blame? I almost understand this, but on reflection, I realize that I don't grasp the distinction between "i'anai" and "i'enai". > And what is {i'anai}? > Is it "it's your fault" or is it "mea culpa"? I think that "i'anai se'inai" is the former, and "i'anai se'i" is the latter. > Or is the scale > "acceptance - blame" a scale between "my fault" and "your fault"? I don't think so. > Also, it would be nice to have a more gracious way of replying > to "thank you" than "mhm". Of course, it has to be somewhat > idiomatic, but I still haven't found a nice way to do it. To paraphrase some remarks made in The Loglanist about (the Loglan equivalent of) "coi", "je'e" is neither gracious nor ungracious, but merely correct. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.