From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Fri Mar 02 06:42:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 2 Mar 2001 14:42:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 66639 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2001 14:42:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Mar 2001 14:42:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2001 14:42:53 -0000 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (IDENT:robin@fen130 [139.179.97.69]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f22Elnp21199 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:47:49 +0200 (EET) Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Message-ID: <3A9FB211.1E3628B5@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:45:37 +0200 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Sophisticated Lojban (was: Meaningless talk) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: robin > > >From my point of view -- but that is about my vocabulary and my own writing > > style -- a good move would be to drop all the attitudinals and discursives > > for a while. They do clutter the message and they seem to get misused more > > often that content words (and are also the tightest piece of the vocabulary, > > small error make huge differences). They are semantic ciphers, so nothing > > will be lost (and some folk may be forced to actually use the brivla that > > they mean when they use them). .oi.ienai Attitudinals are, IMNSHO, one of the most useful, creative and attractive features of Lojban. robin.tr