Re: [lojban] (no subject)

["Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>]

From: "Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>

la lojban cusku di'e

> At 12:26 AM 02/24/2000 -0500, BestATN@aol.com wrote:
> >How do you say in Lojban "I miss you" as a man might say to his wife when
> >she's in hospital and he has to work?
> 
> This sounds more attitudinal than anything one would claim with a predicate 
> sentence.
>

Anything you can say with an attitudinal can be made into a 
predicate claim. Sometimes it might be a little clumsy, but it still 
works.

My first thought is to use "kanydji" (d1=k1 k2 k3 d3), i.e. "mi 
kanydji do", to which you could then add any attitudinals you want. 
you could make a tanru with claxu if you really want to state that 
you actually are not with her.

This is one of the most interesting parts of Lojban, in my opinion, 
making up neat new words to enrich the language. The idea is to 
have the lujvo define themselves, and make up more words for the 
same idea, each with different connotations different from similar 
English words.

i co'o mi'e adam
araizen@newmail.net
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