[lojban] Re: adverbs to indicate whose standard is used

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:00:06PM -0700, Theodore Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 22:41 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:05:05PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik
> > wrote:
> > > Matt Arnold wrote:
> > > 
> > > >A friend of mine blogged the following:
> > > >
> > > >"We need a couple of new adverbs (or maybe I just need to
> > > >find existing ones) that indicate whose definition of a word
> > > >we are using: our's, our subculture's, or society-at-large's.
> > > >They need to be simple enough to insert comfortably into
> > > >casual conversation; single syllable, and preferably not
> > > >syllables that could be mistaken for other adverbs.
> > > 
> > > How about "du'o", based on djuno?
> > 
> > Certainly a BAI of some kind, but djuno doesn't work very well
> > here, as it's about factual knowledge.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why hasn't anyone suggested using
> evidentials?
> 
> lo ka'u xlali nixli

Because you can only tag one "culture" with ka'u.

-Robin

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