Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:34:04 -0600 (CST)
From: "Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ok, lambda/currying-geeks needed (was
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>>> Another is that it's constructed from a list of English emotions -- one
>>> of the first things I wanted to write/say was an attitudinal to replace
>>> "the tone of voice you have when revealing a great secret", and of
>>> course, non exists.
>>
>> Maybe {bi'u}, {bi'u sai}?
>
> Maybe. Combining bi'u with a "secrecy"-attitudinal would cover it.

There's {.i'u nai}.

> Yes! Or variants like ui.uunairu'e
>
>>> or ennui
>>
>> {.u'i nai}?
>
> I don't like this one so much; the distinction between weariness and
> ennui is something I'd like to keep.
> Maybe it can be done with UI4 but that still makes a sapir-whorf-y
> connection between them (similar to the love/hate problem).

I've used {.u'e nai} for a certain kind of ennui.

>>> righteousness,
>>
>> {.u'u cu'i}?
>
> Maybe. I'm looking for the word for the feeling of "We're doing the
> Right Thing here!"

vu'e


In reply to another message, isn't it possible to put the attitudinal after a
gadri to modify the whole sumti, instead of after the terminator?  That is,
{le po'o gerku} being the same as {le gerku ku po'o}.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."

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