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I'm thinking of a concept called 'free attitudinals,' somewhat parenthetical words that express the speaker's attitude towards the whole utterance. Loglan has them, but they're grammar words, and limited. I'm thinking of using -xe at the ending, and they'd work like this: da hawtalixe pa tari dasa bani. he lucky-xe found his money. Not meaning that he was lucky in finding his money, but that it's a lucky thing for the speaker that this happened. Maybe not lucky -for- the speaker, but lucky in the speaker's judgment. I figure the -xe form can appear anywhere in the sentence or right before or after it. I see these possibilities: xurxe - surely straqxe - strangely gnawxe - exactly jiqxe - surprisingly varnixe - expectedly Up to now, we've only used ke formations: haw ke da pa tari dasa bani. It's good that he found his money. And when you get into truth tables and such, that sentence isn't actually saying that he found his money, just that it's a good thing that he did. (Loglan people, help me out here.) But: hawxe do pa tari dasa bani. Would be "He found his money. Good." or "Good, he found his money."