Re: [lojban] Attitudinal scales and the meaning of {cu'i}

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> As you say xorxes, I think the fact that "zero relaxation" sounds kind of
>>> like "impatience" is an affect of malglico mindset.
>
>> Did I really say that?
> I assumed that that was what you were getting at when you said:
> "The wording "zero X" does not seem to
> capture their meaning in most cases, but that may be just a failure of
> the English idiom "zero X". "Zero patience" suggests impatience, not
> "o'o cu'i", "zero relaxation" suggests stress, not "o'u cu'i", and so
> on."
>
> If the concept of "zero patience" implies "impatience" (to'e patience) in
> english, and if that is influencing our understanding of what {.o'ocu'i}
> means then that is malglico is it not?

But I don't think it is influencing anybody's understanding. I don't
think we are in disagreement about anything important here, but there
was no malglico involved or suggested. We agree that "zero X" is not
an ideal gloss for "X cu'i", that's all.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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