[lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting

[jexOm. <jexOm@free.fr>]

Le 25 août 04, à 15:27, John Johnson a écrit :

> 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?

Yes, see 
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html .
The modifiers are resp. the {cu'i} and {nai} suffixes.
Thus, the lines

	.a'a | attentive | inattentive | avoiding
	.au | desire | indifference | reluctance

Mean:
{.a'a} attentive
{.a'acu'i} inattentive
{.a'anai} avoiding
{.au} desire
{.aucu'i} indifference
{.aunai} reluctance

(Note that for some attitudinals, -cu'i is n/a.)
You can double-check that in the cmavo list: 
http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/cmavo.txt

HTH,
  Jérôme.