Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:51:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712131351.IAA17561@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Robin Turner Sender: Lojban list From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: debating style and attitudinals X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1251 X-From-Space-Date: Sat Dec 13 08:51:36 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >>if And, in one of his >>characteristically vitriolic postings, were to write [le'uro'u] instead = >of >>[le'uro'e]!). And whatever the rights and wrongs of it, [pe'u] no = >ironic >>attitudinals! > >.ua .u'udai zo'o While exhorting others not to make errors, you've made = >the error of replacing le'o with le'u in both examples -- which happens = >to be the end-error-quote. =20 > >chris .u'u .o'unairo'a I could lie and say I was writing reflexive text i.e. demonstrating the error I was exhorting people to avoid (something I do in my EAP materials e.g. "Absolutely nothing is ever worse than exaggeration" or "It is important to pay, attention to punctuation"). In fact it was my previously uncovered mabla tendency to use my scribbled notes rather than printed matter - I tend not to close my O's properly, so I then type them up as U's. What I was of course trying to say was [le'oro'e] - intellectual aggression, the kind of thing you might say to warn someone that you were about to tear their theory to shreds - and [le'oro'u] which, I have understood it correctly, should only be uttered between consenting adults in private. Robin Turner Bilkent Universitesi, IDMYO, Ankara, Turkey.