[lojban] Re: .aunai and .a'unai

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

In my experience {au} and {a'u} are not used all that much,
and {au nai} and {a'u nai} even less. I can report what my usage
of them has been so far:

I use {au} to express wishes rather than desire (in Spanish,
"deseo" means both "wish" and "desire", so that's my excuse). 
Importantly, I normally don't use a bridi tagged with {au} to 
make an assertion but simply to express the content of a wish.

These are the {au} examples I have for the BPFK definitions:

.au lo tricu cu krati lo ro se genja gi'e sfasa lo kusru be gy
"Would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have
roots, and punish those that wrong them!" (That's a quote
from from Lord of the Rings.)

.aunai ta tai kargu
"I wish those weren't so expensive."

.aucu'i makau jinga
"I don't really care who wins."

So basically I use {aunai}  for {au ... na ...} a negative wish.

{a'u} is very different. I have used it mainly to show interest 
as a response to what someone has said (i.e. "that's interesting") 
or to tag a question so that the question is understood as not
just as a formal or burocratic request for info but as something
I'm really interested in. 

{a'unai} I don't think I have actually used, but I wrote this
as an example:

.a'unai ta panci simsa lo kalci
"Yuck, that smells like shit!"

mu'o mi'e xorxes