[lojban-beginners] Re: attitudinals question

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 11 pi'e 12 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. pyrosim .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> My naive thought would be that the .ui would bond to the whole
> sentence and the xu would bond to the do
.skamyxatra

It's the other way around.  "{.ui}" and "{xu}" are both of {selma'o} UI, and so
they bind to the word immediately before them.  They only affect an entire
sentence when they come at the beginning of a text or after an "{.i}", which
causes them to modify whatever's on the right side of the "{.i}".

> I think the sentence you are looking for is "xu .ui dai".

No, asking about another's feelings is done with "{pei}," and so "Are you
happy?" would be "{.ui pei}" (or "{xu do gleki}" for a strict translation).

mu'omi'e la'o gy. Minimiscience .gy.

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