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Re: xanka



la djan cusku di'e

> Au contraire.  The German word "Angst" means "anxiety", but in philosophical
> use (including in English, where it is a le'avla) it means precisely
> "anxiety without an object, free-floating anxiety".  This might be described
> as "le za'i xe'a catlu da poi bancu le xe'a janco", where "xe'a" is the
> lambda variable.  This is an example, BTW, of lambda variables in event
> abstractions.

It sounds more like paranoia than angst, but I have to admit that it's
a good example. It sort of kills my plea for {ke'a} as the lambda variable.
(Also, I would use {ka} instead of {za'i}, but that's beside the point.)

Jorge