From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 05 10:50:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 17:50:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 78018 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 17:48:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 17:48:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 17:48:28 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157Kvz-0001kl-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:48:03 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:48:03 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher Message-ID: <20010605104803.I16755@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:53:24AM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I am still unsure what empathetic opining is --xod got so into my head > that agreement resulted? The sentence in question is < .a'unaicai > pe'idai le nu fanva la .alis. cu palci .ianai .u'e > in which the only > assertion is < le nu fanva la .alis. cu palci >; the rest is emotive > response. Umm, I think it's pretty freaking obvious. He's empathising with/expressing what he believes to be _your_ opinion, which he expresses as "le nu fanva la .alis. cu palci". A bit unorthodox, but I found it instantly clear. Oh, he's also expressing repulsion, disbelief, and wonder at your opinion. The 'dai' clearly states that the opinion is not his own. -Robin, who thinks 'dai' rocks, and people should use it more often. -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/