Message-ID: <34633EA1.1B25@locke.ccil.org> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 11:15:29 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: Ironic Use of Attitudinals References: <199711071002.FAA17990@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 463 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Nov 07 11:15:29 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - Ashley Yakeley wrote: > I assume the refgram is merely saying that none of the attitudinals are > ironic by default, rather than that attitudinals should never be used > ironically. Is this right? The point is that *explicit* expressions of emotion in English are inherently somewhat ironic; English has a stiff-upper-lip assumption, especially in writing. Not so Lojban. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban