Subject: RE: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:41:28

la kreig cusku di'e

>Uh... since when is <xu> an attitudinal?

It is a member of selmaho UI. That is what I understand as
"attitudinal".

>It's not even in the same chapter of the reference grammar. It serves a
>completely different purpose from attitudinals.

Not really all that different. Like many other UIs, it changes
the use of a proposition from an assertion to something else:
question, request, intention, wish, etc. None of those are
assertions.

>Asking whether something is
>true does not imply any opinion on the subject.

No, it doesn't. Just that you want to know whether it is true.

>Saying you hope it is
>implies that you would be pleased to learn it was true.

Yes.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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