From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 12 20:40:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 13 Jun 2001 03:40:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 7879 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 03:40:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Jun 2001 03:40:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 03:40:31 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15A1WA-00068k-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:40:30 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:40:30 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals Message-ID: <20010612204030.K14438@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 12, 2001 at 11:35:35PM -0400, Craig wrote: > Why do we need a'o? isn't it under any of these proposals just a > redundancy that could be a non-assertive .ui or other attitudinal and > therefore a cultural bias from English, which keeps hope and > would-be-pleasure separate? Hope doesn't have to have anything to do with happiness. I hope, for the sake of the earth, that something happens to kill many, many humans. Such an event would _not_ make me happy. For the record, if we find another way to save ourselves, that would be fine too. -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/