[lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting

[Jens-Wolfhard Schicke <jens.schicke@hvf-bs.net>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:27:41AM -0400, John Johnson wrote:
> I see this format used in a lot of lojban references:
> .a'a attentive inattentive avoiding
In my reference it says:
.a'a      attentive         attidudinal: attentive - inattentive avoiding

> Which I would suppose means .a'a means attentive. But the references
> never say what the two or three other columns represent. Is there some
> standard modifier that makes .a'a mean inattentive, and one that makes
> it mean avoiding?
yes...
.a'a     is attentive    [ positive on the scale of attentiviness]
.a'acu'i is inattentive  [ neutral  on the scale of attentiviness]
.a'anai  is avoiding     [ negative on the scale of attentiviness]