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



On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:05:05PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik
wrote:
> 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?

Certainly a BAI of some kind, but djuno doesn't work very well here,
as it's about factual knowledge.

Some possibilities:

ku'u

ga'a

fi'o se marde

-Robin

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