From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sat Feb 20 11:28:16 1999
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Message-ID: <44114.67.330.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:28:16 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: {zo'o.o'i} non-mystically-inclined lojbanists trash this immediately!

la xorxes. cusku di'e

> la robin cusku di'e
>
> >.i .eo doi solri ko kurji ro'i
> >.i .eo le pruxi cu prami je gleki
> >.i .eo doi lunra ko kurji ro'e
> >.i .eo le menli cu sarlu je sanji
> >.i .eo doi fagri ko kurji ro'o
> >.i .eo le xadni cu kanro je tsali
>
> I think {sarlu} was meant to be {surla}...
>

It was - typo! IIRC, it was xorxes. who originally suggested it. "Relax" isn't
exactly what I was looking for, but I think {surla} has a slightly wider scope
than the English.

>
> I liked that prayer very much.

{.ui.o'a} Glad you liked it. Feel free to adopt/adapt it - there's no copyright
and it's totally non-denominational! ;-)

> Also it's interesting that aside from the
> three
> attitudinal modifiers that you use (ro'i, ro'e, ro'o), the remaining three
> also fall within the same three spheres. Those three are the basic ones,
> pertaining directly to the person, and the other three (re'e, ro'a, ro'u)
> reflect
> the relationship with others: spiritual/religious relates to emotion from
> the
> point of view of a community, social might be seen as the community
> interacting in mind, and sexual is the physical interaction, of two in its
> most intense form, but also with others in more dilute expressions.
>

{.a'u} That hadn't occurred to me before. Lojban seems full of these nice
little symmetries.

co'o mi'e robin noi pu'o mabla fanva gunka