Re: [lojban] babies: "you might as well sleep"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:50:19AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > Huh.  That's not what I think {.ei} means at all.  I read that
> > as "I, the speaker, am feeling obligated/constrained about
> > something having to do with nothing preventing you from
> > sleeping".  I don't get your use there at all.
> 
> What do you use for my sense "I feel it ought to be the case that
> ..."?

I don't know of a UI that covers that.  It is *certainly* not {.ei}.

> Notice that my sense covers yours, all I need is to have "mi" as
> the agent of whatever I feel ought to be the case.

As I've said elsewhere, I don't think that's how UI work; they're
for the raw emotional expression of the single individual speaker
only.

-Robin

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