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[lojban-beginners] Re: Reference formatting



Thanks Jens-Wolfhard and la xorxes.

I guess everyone just knows that, except me! It's very confusing to my beginner's mind. I'm thinking, "Does it mean all three? How can that be?"

la xorxes, your name reminds me of another question: when your lojban name is pronounced, the final s is pronounced too? I assume it must be, since there are no silent letters.

Thanks again,
  JJ

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke wrote:

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]