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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
> Having slept on this, I think I'm back to my original position,
> and I now think that {ba'a cu'i} should mean "non-expectation".
> But at least now I know that it's not fully backwards-compatible.

I would agree with that.

> I might prefer {cu'i} as a contradictory negator for attitudinals,
> by the way, rather than a "zeroer".
>
> That gives
>
> UI = sei broda
> UI ru'e = sei milxe lo ka broda
> UI sai = sei mutce lo ka broda
> UI cu'i = sei na broda

What about "nutli" instead of "na"? Or maybe na/na'e/nutli are all
more or less equivalent in this context.

> UI nai = sei to'e broda
> UI sai cu'i = sei na mutce lo ka broda
> UI ru'e sai = sei milxe lo ka mutce broda

Shouldn't that be "sei mutce lo ka milxe lo ka broda"?

> I have never used {be'u} nor seen it used, so I have no intuitions
> about what it might mean.

I think it's "sei to'e dukse".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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