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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@... wrote: > > In a message dated 8/24/2007 3:03:01 PM Central Daylight Time, rmay@... > writes: > > > > 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. > > Have you looked at the Lojban attitudinals? They are much more comprehensive > than Loglan's. > I just looked at them in the Lojban Wiki. There are a lot of them, indeed. But I prefer the idea of converting words one might already know with a suffix ? that makes the number of attitudinals open-ended, for one thing, and gives you a lot fewer words to memorize.