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Re: Attitudinals



--- 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.