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[lojban-beginners] Re: ok, lambda/currying-geeks needed (was Re: Re: "Once More")



Another is that it's constructed from a list of English emotions -- one
of the first things I wanted to write/say was an attitudinal to replace
"the tone of voice you have when revealing a great secret", and of
course, non exists.

Maybe {bi'u}, {bi'u sai}?

Maybe. Combining bi'u with a "secrecy"-attitudinal would cover it.

There's {.i'u nai}.

Yes! Or variants like ui.uunairu'e

or ennui

{.u'i nai}?

I don't like this one so much; the distinction between weariness and
ennui is something I'd like to keep.
Maybe it can be done with UI4 but that still makes a sapir-whorf-y
connection between them (similar to the love/hate problem).

I've used {.u'e nai} for a certain kind of ennui.

righteousness,

{.u'u cu'i}?

Maybe. I'm looking for the word for the feeling of "We're doing the
Right Thing here!"

vu'e


In reply to another message, isn't it possible to put the attitudinal after a
gadri to modify the whole sumti, instead of after the terminator?  That is,
{le po'o gerku} being the same as {le gerku ku po'o}.
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