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>If I did not say it last time, the concept of two aliens using attitudinal-only
>speech when the attuitudinals were defined strictly for human emotions seemed
>incredibly and moind-bogglingly wrong.  If I were to do it with attitudinals,
>I would include a few experimental cmavo that seemed likely to be attitudinals
>in the string just to capture the alienness of the presumed emotion.

I don't think that using the lojban. attitudinals is wrong, it is purely an
imitation of the GalThree language using one type of lojbanic device, where in
the English hyphenation is used.  It doesn't actually mean that the aliens
said it.