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Re: [lojban-beginners] Some questions after reading la .teris.



On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Erik Natanael Gustafsson <eriknatanaelgustafsson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 12:08:56 AM UTC+2, xorxes wrote:
 
I think that's mostly a matter of register. "I am of the opinion that ..." is way too formal for something like that. In English you might express an opinion by saying "I think that ...".
Yes it's too formal, but I wanted to clearly distinguish the different senses of "to think". "To think" has so many different meanings that it feels almost meaningless when used in a definition.

But "think that ...", i.e. when the object is a proposition, is pretty much always "jinvi".  Other "think"s are usually "pensi".

 
I guess the question is, how would I in Lojban distinguish between an opinion that is a belief concerning something which is true or false and an opinion that is a subjective view/taste? 

"jinvi" for the first one. For the second, I would need an example, but I suppose you are thinking of "by standard" places, as in "ta melbi mi", "that's beautiful to me"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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