Re: (no subject)

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:26 AM 02/24/2000 -0500, BestATN@aol.com wrote:
>How do you say in Lojban "I miss you" as a man might say to his wife when
>she's in hospital and he has to work?

This sounds more attitudinal than anything one would claim with a predicate 
sentence.

The basic attitude of missing someone is probably be'uro'i (lack/absence 
felt emotionally), which you might color given the situation with o'unai 
(stress), o'e (closeness), a'a (attentive), and of course .iu. You can 
also use dai with another attitudinal to indicate empathic identification 
with how she is feeling (oiro'udai - empathy with her pain).

Attitudinals are things which require exploration to see how many ways you 
can apply them. They are all under selma'o UI (and most words under 
selma'o UI can be used in some circumstances to indicate attitude or 
emotional state either alone or as modifiers of other words).

lojbab

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