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Re: [lojban] Re: adverbs to indicate whose standard is used
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 22:41 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why hasn't anyone suggested using
evidentials?
lo ka'u xlali nixli