Re: xanka

[John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>]

> If you are looking over your shoulder, even metaphorically, you expect to
> spot something that is the obkject of your anxiety.  You may not know what
> da is, but you expect there to be something.  (Maybe Angst is an
> xanka-expectation, or even loi xanka be zu'i (rather than zo'e)).

A bad example all around, I grant you (see my response to And).  But I
do think that angst is "loi xanka be zi'o"; there really is no (grammatical)
object.  This is not expectation, but a general mental state, as one may be
in fear without being fearful of anything in particular.

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John Cowan                                              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban.