[lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting

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John Johnson wrote:

> I see this format used in a lot of lojban references:
> .a'a 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?
>
> TIA,
>  JJ
>  

The second column is the neutral value (created by cu'i) and the third 
is the negative value (created by nai). So:

.a'a = attentive
.a'acu'i = inattentive
.a'anai = avoiding


Sometimes it's hard to find an English keyword that exactly pertains to 
these ideas.


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