Re: [lojban] Re: other-centric UI

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Craig Daniel <teucer@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> But ".oidai" doesn't mean "somebody else feels pain," it means "I feel
> pain, empathetically." This is normally pretty much the same, but as
> far as I can tell it doesn't actually require anybody else to feel any
> pain - for a somewhat crude example, imagine that you are male and you
> see one of those naked classical statues have its junk broken off. I
> at least am likely to cringe empathetically at the perceived
> painfulness of the situation, even though I'd be pretty shocked to
> learn that the statue had any actual feelings on the matter at all.

Of course. That's how I understand "dai" (and "da'oi") to work. .oi
da'oi lo roknau.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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