X-Digest-Num: 65 Message-ID: <44114.65.267.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:46:16 +0200 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: Promoting Lojban [was Re: Loglan still alive?] X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 267 Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 26 la bret. cusku di'e [snippet] > would that mean that speaking lojban will make people better at > expressing emotion? let's all learn fluent lojban & find out! .u'o! > .e'e! .ai .ai! {.iecai} I read somewhere (I think it was Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence") that children with emotional disturbances often have a very limited vocabulary for describing emotion, and that expanding this vocabulary was a first step to both widening their emotional repertoire and reducing maladaptive emotion. {pe'i seni'i} Lojban attitudinals could not only improve communication of emotion but also emotional behaviour itself. {.ia} a useful exercise is inventing attitudinals: either coin one to describe an emotion for which there is no exact word in your native language (e.g. {.iucai.uinaicai} to translate Turkish slang "arabesk") or create one randomly and try to imgaine the feeling it would describe. {.e'u} learn attitudinals, use attitudinals, invent attitudinals co'o mi'e robin.