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[lojban] .aunai and .a'unai



I'm learning the attitudinals based on the definitions in the
reference grammar, and I've come across a couple of definitions that
seem to be backwards. In the grammar,

    .au desire      indifference    reluctance
    .a'u    interest    no interest repulsion

However, it seems to me that repulsion is more opposite desire than it
is interest, and likewise, reluctance is more opposite interest than
desire. This could be a typo, but one that's been copied to various
places on the internet already. Does anyone agree that these seem to
be backwards? What usage has been established?

FWIW, I noticed because I kept getting .au and .a'u confused when
learning the attitudinals in Supermemo, and I finally realized that
this seemed to be the reason. So my gut instinct was to treat
repulsion as opposite of desire and reluctance opposite of interest,
before I had even realized there was a conflict in the definitions. I
think this is relatively strong evidence that they're reversed, if
usage hasn't been established.

There's no mention of this in the errata for CLL.

Chris Capel
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