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Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals
At 01:38 AM 06/09/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
la lojbab cusku di'e
>All we know is that the speaker feels hope when
>confronted with the proposition of the president being honest.
{a'o} can't mean both "hope for" and "hope from". Just because
English uses one word for both concepts is not a reason to give
both meanings to the Lojban word.
It means neither - it means simply "hope", an emotional state that the
speaker is displaying by expressing the word.
I suspect that "hope from" applies but am not sure exactly what that
entails. Certainly some chunk of language or that which the language
represents is associated with our feeling the emotion of hope, but the
connection is contextually determined.
lojbab
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