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Re: [lojban] adverbs to indicate whose standard is used



Matt Arnold wrote:

A friend of mine blogged the following:

"We need a couple of new adverbs (or maybe I just need to find existing ones) that indicate whose definition of a word we are using: our's, our subculture's, or society-at-large's. They need to be simple enough to insert comfortably into casual conversation; single syllable, and preferably not syllables that could be mistaken for other adverbs.

How about "du'o", based on djuno?


Why?

   1. I'd like to be able to say 'I like foo-bad girls' without
      stopping to explain that by foo-bad, I mean girls that
      society-at-large labels as bad. In this case, because they are
      sexually agressive, but that was implied in the conversation.

mi nelci lo ke cinse gunta ke'e bedu'o la se gubni be'o citni'u

I like girls that are, by societies' point of view, sexually aggressive.

That is a wild guess by a beginner so it's very likely incorrect. I'm not sure if there is also a way to stick pe'i or jinvi in there attached only to that tanru. Does pe'i have an X2 place determining who has that opinion?

Michael.