Travis Garris wrote:
(here is a big plus for Lojban, attitudinal words, since I'm not a big fan of smileys, I just don't know what the tongue-in-cheek version of .u'i is).
There was a massive debate some years back on whether attitudinals could be used ironically, sarcastic or with tongue in cheek. It was never resolved to everyone's satisfaction, although the official position is clear: attitudinals cannot be used in this way because they are not propositions.
You could say .u'i.zo'o, but it is not clear what the relationship between the two is (attitudinals don't have the strict grouping rules of, say tanru - so it's generally assumed that i someone says ".oi.ui.aunairu'e" they are expressing complaint, happiness and a lack of desire in unspecified proprotions, or an emotion which is a peculiar mixture of the three).
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