Re: Promoting Lojban [was Re: Loglan still alive?]

[Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx]

la bret. cusku di'e
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> would that mean that speaking lojban will make people better at
> expressing emotion? let's all learn fluent lojban & find out! .u'o!
> .e'e! .ai .ai!

{.iecai} I read somewhere (I think it was Goleman's "Emotional
Intelligence") that children with emotional disturbances often have a very
limited vocabulary for describing emotion, and that expanding this
vocabulary was a first step to both widening their emotional repertoire and
reducing maladaptive emotion. {pe'i seni'i} Lojban attitudinals could not
only improve communication of emotion but also emotional behaviour itself.
{.ia} a useful exercise is inventing attitudinals: either coin one to
describe an emotion for which there is no exact word in your native language
(e.g. {.iucai.uinaicai} to translate Turkish slang "arabesk") or create one
randomly and try to imgaine the feeling it would describe.

{.e'u} learn attitudinals, use attitudinals, invent attitudinals

co'o mi'e robin.