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On 8/24/07, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > 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 like the idea of having an open set of attitudinals. Have you thought about having a similar open set of evidential adverbs? -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm