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I'm wondering how much of this I can adapt for a new conlang project that uses attitudinals (and lots of evidentials). I haven't seriously worked on the attitudinals yet (I've been discovering that some things I'd thought were aspects are modals), so this comes in handy. Jeff FYI yahoo has resumed the practice of deleting dormant groups. --- In engelang@yahoogroups.com, "bfowol" <pkroser@e...> wrote: > This is a proposal for an engelangy alternative to Lojban's > UI/attitudinals, based on Plutchik's classification of human > emotions. > I do not advocate that Lojban adopt this scheme, but rather put > this out there as a possible alternative for other incipient > engelangs. > In this scheme there are four paired (polar opposite) 'basic' > emotions: > > joy || sadness > anticipation || surprise > anger || fear > disgust || trust > > Each emotion may occur in varying intensities - Plutchik lists > three, from least to most intense: > > serenity/joy/ecstasy || pensiveness/sadness/grief > interest/anticipation/vigilance || distraction/surprise/amazement > annoyance/anger/rage || apprehension/fear/terror > boredom/disgust/loathing || acceptance/trust/admiration > > There are also secondary (or 'primary dyadic') emotions comprised of > two other (adjacent) emotions: > > joy+trust = love || disgust+sadness = remorse > anticipation+joy = optimism || sadness+surprise = disapproval > anger+anticipation = aggressiveness || surprise+fear = awe > anger+disgust = contempt || fear+trust = submission > > Since each of the basic emotions can conceptually be divided into > three, 'primary dyadic' emotions (composites of two primary > emotions) could potentially have nine 'flavors', eg: > love1 = joy+trust, love2 = serenity+acceptance, > love3 = ecstasy+admiration, love4 = joy+acceptance, > love5 = joy+admiration, and so on. > > (I realize that 'love', in particular, is a very complex set of > emotions & relations, and several other analyses of it exist > online, including a useful one that sees it as consisting of three > components - intimacy, passion & commitment) > > At a minimum, one could encode the eight primary emotions as > distinct terms in an engelang along with some sort of indicators > for "high/medium/low degree", possibly also encoding the eight > secondary emotions (see below) with distinct terms (depending on > how compact one wishes to make the lg), and perhaps even allowing > distinct terms for the additional degrees of the eight primaries > and the different flavors of secondaries (to a maximum of 24 > primary + 72 secondary terms = 96 total). > > Bfowol