[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: greeks and love (was RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo - new proposals featuring XOhA an...)
At 01:03 PM 07/19/2001 -0400, Craig wrote:
I think having iu not mean mi prami is good, because it makes lojban the
only language that does not need body language or smileys - the best English
gloss for ui is not happiness but :-),
The smiley is usually expressed in Lojban as zo'o
which would never do in a formal
paper. But there is more than one kind of smile. A mischevous grin is happy,
but it is not anything like the face you make while eating your favorite
food. Both are ui in lojban.
uiro'o is physical happiness, which sounds good for how you feel about
eating good food, though there are a couple other attitudes that could be
added for good measure -.oinai comes to mind. A mischievious grin could
mean any of several things, from zo'o, .i'inai, .i'o and maybe a few
others, often combined with zo'o. It usually does not mean the simple
emotion expressed by .ui
lojbab
--
lojbab lojbab@lojban.org
Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273
Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org