Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
On Friday, August 10, 2012 11:07:53 PM UTC+4, lojbab wrote:
Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> If the difference between {.ai} and {.au} is so important then
why there
> is no gismu for "intention"?
The intended gismu corresponding to intention was "platu", or perhaps
some compound thereof. I'll accept the possible use of zukte proposed
by someone else, though I think intention need not be purposive either.
> {zukte} = "to intend"? the definition says nothing about that. It
should be clarified, that is changed.
The gismu list is baselined. We haven't allowed changes merely for
clarity for nearly 20 years.
Here is the lack of clarity, actually. If there is no equivalent of
{.ai} in gismu space we must create it.
I disagree. It is NOT essential that concepts be expressed in gismu, if they can be expressed in reasonably short, and possibly metaphorical, lujvo.
One thing I did not mention last post: gismu, and brivla in general, express claims. Attitudinals do not express claims. The set of claims that we might express about the world does not match the set of emotions that we might feel about the world. Yes, it would sometimes be useful to have words to talk about those emotions, umm, unemotionally. But I doubt that such analytical discussion of emotions is all that common, and hence there is no need for short words or expressions to facilitate such discussion. Indeed, one could probably get by with "cinmo la'ezo .ai." without need for any word invention at all.
If it's {zukte}
It isn't.
then we must clarify it's real meaning.
Emotional expressions do not necessarily have "meaning". If they do, it isn't entirely clear that what I *mean* in expressing "ai" or "io" or "iu" is necessarily what you *mean* if you express them.
The question is pretty straightforward: How do I say "I intend ..." not
using {.ai}
You most certainly would not say that using "ai". You express intention using "ai". You do not claim to intend using "ai".
and having in mind it's clean meaning with no extra implications?
Attitudinals have not clean meaning, and aren't intended to. Any implications that they have are purely emotive.
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