Lojban Attiudinals

Dipping once more into “Mindhacker” by Ron Hale Evens revealed an interesting section on Lojban “attitudinals”, effectively spoken or written emoticons. Probably a system as used in Lojban will not be in Diinlang. Simple words for concepts such as permission and obligation will obviously prove useful for constructing the modal verbs for Diinlang. The Lojban words resemble paired letters, although the dot and apostrophe represent a glottal stop and a “h” sound. By employing a few simple rules the attitidinals are easily converted into Diinlang words, many of them proving to be very onomatopoeic!

“yah” for “belief” clashes as a homophone of “ya” for “yes” and I do not like “yu” for “love”. “Togetherness” will more likely be the abstract noun derivation of “kom” (with) and hence “komeso”.

Note that not shown below are the neutral and negative variants of the attitudinals which may prove productive for Diinlang words once how to handle opposites and related issues is settled.
 

.ai “eye” Intent iy

.au “ow” Desire oh
 

.a’a “AH-ha” Attentive aha

.a’e “AH-heh” Alertness ahey

.a’i “AH-hee” Effort ahii

.a’o “AH-ho” Hope aho(h)

.a’u “AH-hoo” Interest ahu

.ei “ey” Obligation ey

.e’a “EH-ha” Granting/ Permission eha

.e’e “EH-heh” Competence ehey

.e’i “EH-hee” Constraint ehii

.e’o “EH-ho” Request eho(h)

.e’u “EH-hoo” Suggestion ehu

.ia “ya” Belief yah!!!??

.ie “yeh” Agreement yey

.ii “yee” Fear yii/ ii

.io “yo” Respect yo(h)

.iu “yoo” Love yu ???

.i’a “EE-ha” Acceptance iiha

.i’e “EE-heh” Approval iihey

.i’i “EE-hee” Togetherness iihii (komeso)

.i’o “EE-ho” Appreciation iiho(h)

.i’u “EE-hoo” Familiarity iihu

.oi “oy” Complaint oy

.o’a “OH-ha” Pride ohha

.o’i “OH-hee” Caution ohhii

.o’e “OH-heh” Closeness ohhey

.o’o “OH-ho” Patience ohho(h)

.o’u “OH-hoo” Relaxation ohhu

.ua “wa” Discovery wa

.ue “weh” Surprise wey

.ui “wee” Happiness wii

.uo “wo” Completion wo(h)

.uu “woo” Pity/ sympathy wu

.u’a “OO-ha” Gain uuha

.u’e “OO-heh” Wonder uuhey

.u’i “OO-hee” Amusement uuhii

.u’o “OO-ho” Courage uuho(h)

.u’u “OO-hoo” Repentance uuhu