From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 12 17:29:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 13 Jun 2001 00:29:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 42580 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 23:53:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 23:53:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 23:53:50 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 159xyj-0004m5-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:53:45 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:53:45 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals Message-ID: <20010612165345.V14438@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 Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:41:59AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la ritcrd cusku di'e > >The attitudinal placement idea solves the same problem IMO opinion, > >which is why I think it would be a fine way to go as well. > > Maybe it is, I haven't had time yet to look at how it would work > for more than the couple of examples presented. Would it apply > to {xu} as well, for example? It requires no change for every use of xu I've ever seen, since it's UI cmavo at the front of the sentence that change the sentence's assertive value. -Robin -- 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/