Re: [lojban] baby words, but general relevance: dai-like cmavo

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

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:19:08AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2011 17:53:35 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > I think, to make things as simple as possible, UI* dai should
> > always mean "You and I UI*", UI* dai nai, "You UI* but I don't",
> > etc. So {o'unai dai} would be "you and I both feel not relaxed".
> 
> I disagree. I think "UI dai nai" says explicitly that my feeling
> of UI is mine alone; to say that my feeling of UI is equal to what
> I feel you (or someone else) feel, I'd say "UI dai cu'i".

Well, {dai nai} isn't currently defined at all.  Since the default
is that you're expressing your own emotions (as I've said elsewhere,
I feel strongly that that's the *only* valid use of bare UI), I'd
rather use {dai nai} for something useful.

-Robin


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