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cu'i nai cu'i nai

positive neutral/lacking negative/opposite positive neutral/lacking negative/opposite


a'a attentive inattentive avoiding ba'a I expect I experience I remember
a'e alertness exhaustion ca'e I define
a'i effort no real effort repose ja'o I conclude
a'o hope despair ju'a I state

Evidentials
a'u interest no interest repulsion ka'u I know by cultural means
ai intent indecision refusal pe'i I opine

Table of discourse indicators


au desire indifference reluctance ru'a I postulate
e'a permission prohibition se'o I know by internal experience
e'e su'a
Attitudes

competence incompetence I generalize I particularize


e'i constraint independence resist to constraint ti'e I hear (hearsay)
e'o request negative request za'a I observe
e'u suggestion no suggestion warning
ei obligation freedom
i'a acceptance blame ba'u exaggeration accuracy understatement
i'e approval non-approval disapproval da'i supposing in fact
ia belief skepticism disbelief do'a generously parsimoniously
ie agreement disagreement fu'au luckily not pertaining to luck unluckily
i'i togetherness privacy je'u truly falsely
i'o appreciation envy ji'a additionally
i'u familiarity mystery ju'o certainly uncertain certainly not
ke'u repeating continuing
ii fear nervousness security ku'i however/but/in contrast
io respect disrespect la'a probably improbably
iu love no love lost hatred li'a clearly/obviously obscurely

Discoursives
o'a pride modesty shame mi'u ditto
o'e closeness detachment distance mu'a for example omitting examples end examples
o'i caution boldness rashness pa'e justice prejudice
o'o patience mere tolerance anger pe'a figuratively literally
o'u relaxation composure stress po'o the only relevant case
Emotions

oi complaint/pain doing OK pleasure ra'u chiefly equally incidentally


u'a gain loss sa'e precisely speaking loosely speaking
u'e wonder commonplace sa'u simply elaborating
u'i amusement weariness si'a similarly
u'o courage timidity cowardice ta'o by the way returning to point
u'u repentance lack of regret innocence ta'u expanding a tanru making a tanru
ua discovery confusion to'u in brief in detail
ue surprise no surprise expectation va'i in other words in the same words
ui happiness unhappiness zo'o humorously dully seriously
uo completion incompleteness zu'u on the one hand on the other hand
uu pity cruelty
cu'i nai cu'i nai
positive neutral/lacking negative/opposite positive neutral/lacking negative/opposite
be'e request to send ga'i hauteur/rank equal rank meekness/lack of rank
co'o partings (“bye!”) le'o aggressive passive defensive
coi vu'e

Modifiers
greetings (“Hi!”) virtue (zabna) sin (mabla)
da'oi assign attitude/emotion to the listener se'i self-orientation other-orientation
dai assign attitude/emotion to someone (empathy) ri'e release restraint control
di'ai well-wish curse fu'i with help/easily without help

Table of discourse indicators


do'u end vocative be'u lack/need presence/satisfaction satiation
doi Identify listener se'a self-sufficiency dependency
fe'o end of communication not done
Vocatives

fi'i welcome/offering unwelcome/inhospitality ro'a social asocial antisocial

Categories
je'e roger, OK couldn't get your message ro'e mental mindless
ju'i attention at ease ignore me/us ro'i emotional denying emotion
ke'o please repeat no repeat needed ro'o physical denying physical
ki'e appreciation/gratitude disappreciation/ingratitude ro'u sexual sexual abstinence
mi'e self-identification non-identification re'e spiritual secular sacrilegious
mu'o completion of utterance more to follow
nu'e promise release promise non-promise bi'u new information old information

Misc
pe'u request bu'o start emotion continue emotion end emotion
re'i ready to receive not ready ge'e non-specific indicator
ta'a interruption
vi'o will comply will not comply kau indirect question

Question
pau question premarker rhetorical question
pei attitude question
xu true-false question
neutral a little medium extreme
cu'i ru'e sai cai
weaker than previous as previous stronger than previous open close
me'ai dau'i mau'i fu'e attitudinal scope fu'o
bridi affirmer bridi negator lo'u quote (questionable/out-of-context) le'u
Scales

ja'a na lu quote (grammatical text) li'u


cmavo affirmer cmavo negator sei discursive (metalinguistic) bridi se'u
ja'ai nai to toi
Quotes
parenthetical note
metalinguistic affirmer metalinguistic confusion metalinguistic negator to'i editorial unquote toi
jo'a ki'a na'i li'o omitted text within a quote
scalar affirmer midpoint scalar neg. contrary scalar neg. polar opposite sa'a material inserted by the editor/narrator
je'a no'e na'e to'e zo quote next Lojban word
zo'oi quote next non-Lojban word (dot-sided)
ba'e next word or sumti is emphasized zoi delimited non-Lojban quotation
ba'ei next word only is emphasized
Markers

sa'ei next cmevla or zoi-quote is an onomatopoeia lo'ai (text to be replaced) sa'ai (replacement text) le'ai
Mistakes

ki'ai next cmevla or zoi-quote is a nonce interjection/attitudinal sa erase complete or partial utterance
za'e next word is nonce-creation si erase last word
ze'ei create a nonce word binding two words su erase everything and start over

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