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

[Daniel Brockman <daniel@gointeractive.se>]

>> 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.

Yeah, they're probably equivalent, but I particularly like the {na}
interpretation because {UI sai cu'i} = {sei na mutce lo ka broda}
ends up meaning something useful.  If we take {cu'i} for {nutli}, then
we get {sei nutli lo ka mutce lo ka broda}, which seems useless.

>> UI nai = sei to'e broda

I meant {sei to'e zei broda}, of course.

>> 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"?

Sorry, yes.  Exactly.

>> 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".

Well... okay.  So could I say {be'u} when I'm hungry?
Whenever I have too little of something, {be'u} applies?

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