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Re: [lojban-beginners] {lo ka "attitudinal"}




On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, .neit. <kosmikconundrum@gmail.com> wrote:
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.uanai .e'o So if I wanted to say {mi ca tarti lo ka _attitudinal_ kei}  Would that be gramatical? 

No, "ka ... kei" requires a bridi. 

I ask because with the attitudinals, their scales, modifiers, categories and sheer compoundability, a speaker could articulate to a higher degree, his/her feelings than simply using brivla.  And given that, there are times when you would want to express a feeling in bridi form, which brivla fail to adequately specify.  I'm trying to get at a way of discussing an attitudinal compound in a bridi. 

You could create a brivla out of the attitudinal, for example "mi tarti lo ka ua zei nai". But I'm not sure I'd describe that as more articulate than "mi tarti lo ka se cfipu". Maybe somewhat comparable to saying "I went 'huh?'" vs "I acted confused".  
 
 
Could I assign the attitudinal compound to an assignable sumka'i using {goi} and discuss the attitudinal compound using that sumka'i? 

No, you can only assign the referents of a sumti with goi. You could say something like "ko'a goi la'e lu ua nai li'u"

mu'o mi'e xorxes
  

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