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Re: [lojban] Yet Another Tangent: my first cmavo definition
So... how many of the remaining cmavo can be completed just by
adapting CLL references? Is the wiki even up to date? I want to hold
someone accountable, but have no idea where to look.
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Checkpoints
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:34, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's get the cmavo definitions done. Here, I just tried one, someone
>> check it for me.
>>
>> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section:+Attitudinal+Modifiers#Proposed_Definition_of_be_u
>>
>> co'o mi'e korbi
>
>
> Thanks for your effort, la korbi, but I'm afraid your definition is wrong! :(
>
> What's indicated by "be'u" isn't a lack of an emotion, but that the
> emotion is caused by or has to do with lacking something else. For
> instance ".oi be'u" means not a lack of pain, but rather pain because
> of the lack of something.
>
> Here's the relevant part of the CLL:
>
>
> *******
> *******
>
> The cmavo ``be'u'' expresses, roughly speaking, whether the emotion it
> modifies is in response to something you don't have enough of,
> something you have enough of, or something you have too much of. It is
> more or less the attitudinal equivalent of the subjective quantifier
> cmavo ``mo'a'', ``rau'', and ``du'e'' (these belong to selma'o PA, and
> are discussed in Chapter 18). For example,
>
> 7.8) .uiro'obe'unai
> [Yay!] [physical] [Enough!]
>
> might be something you say after a large meal which you enjoyed.
>
> Like all modifiers, ``be'u'' can be used alone:
>
> 7.9) le cukta be'u cu zvati ma
> The book [Needed!] is at-location [what sumti?]
> Where's the book? --- I need it!
>
> *******
> *******
>
>
> mi'e la stela selckiku
> mu'o
>
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