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[lojban-beginners] On the attitudinal cmavo's definitions



I have a question on some of the cmavo's standard definitions. je'e's definition is "vocative: roger (ack) - negative acknowledge." ui's is "attitudinal: happiness - unhappiness." I'm guessing (though I don't know for sure) that the definitions' first parts are the real meanings, while their second parts are the meanings' opposites. But why is this necessary or why was it done like this? It was pretty confusing to me—is there some subtle concept that I'm unaware of?