[lojban] other-centric UI

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Does it seem like a reasonable translation of "what do you want to do" to say {.aidai zukte ma}.  I dislike how lojban sometimes seems like it has to be this verbose thing with bridi like {do djica lo nu zukte ma}.  It seems like UI could be very useful and I'd like to apply it to more of my usage, but so often I want to talk about other's feelings and it seems like this was overlooked in the design.

For instance, is it possible to use a UI to say something like "(speaking to child) wow, you did good.  You're parents must be proud".  This second sentence just wreaks of UI but I can't figure out how to say {ju'o .o'a -> lo rirni be do}.  Is it even possible?  I know of {dai} and {se'inai} but those are just generic "other" and even they don't really feel like they're actually being applied to a specific other person (other being not myself nor {do}).

mi'e cribe

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