[lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting

[John Johnson <johnatl@mac.com>]

Thanks la xod.

English is the only thing I'm fluent in!

Regards,
  JJ

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 12:46 PM, xod wrote:

> John Johnson wrote:
>
> > I see this format used in a lot of lojban references:
> > .a'a attentive inattentive avoiding
> >
> > Which I would suppose means .a'a means attentive. But the references 
> > never say what the two or three other columns represent. Is there 
> > some standard modifier that makes .a'a mean inattentive, and one that 
> > makes it mean avoiding?
> >
> > TIA,
> >  JJ
>
> The second column is the neutral value (created by cu'i) and the third 
> is the negative value (created by nai). So:
>
> .a'a = attentive
> .a'acu'i = inattentive
> .a'anai = avoiding
>
>
> Sometimes it's hard to find an English keyword that exactly pertains 
> to these ideas.
>
>
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