[lojban-beginners] Re: curt

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 11/2/07, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Curt". Example sentence:
>
> Didn't you take care of this already? (IM'd to a coworker.)
>
> Is there an attitudinal (or combination) for this? I suppose "ga'i"
> might work, maybe "e'ega'i".

Indicating that you're being curt seems to go against the very
spirit of being curt, so I would suggest not using any indicator
at all. But {ga'i}, {ionai}, {o'onai}, {le'o} all might capture some
of the attitudes that could go along with curtness.

>  And how would the opposite go, to
> disclaim curtness? (Over IM, you can't use tone of voice, of course.)
> I'd like an attitudinal that mean "I don't know, but"--something like
> ".uanai", but not quite, because ".ua" is "discovery", not
> "knowledge". And I suppose a simple "ga'inai" or "ga'icu'e" would do
> the trick.

Here on the other hand you can be as expansive as you want,
depending on how much deference you want to show:
{ga'inai i'o iosai o'acu'i u'ocu'i le'onai}

mu'o mi'e xorxes