> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
> ...
> > Also, why mark emotional "attitudes" on
> > nouns? You don't necessarily need an answer, I'd just
> think it would be more
> > likely marked on verbs or the whole sentence (I don't have
> data on that,
> > though).
> ....
> Lojban has a set of attitudinal particles which, as best I
understand
> them, apply to a clause as a whole. Those, and the Esperanto
> -acx-- and -cxj- / -nj- suffixes, were the main inspiration for
gzb's
> attitudinal system.
I've used a system in Sasxsek similar to the E-o system. "-ih" /ix/
is the pejorative, and "-iq" /iN/ is the ameliorative. Not
necessarily the speakers attitude but another way of economizing the
lexicon. I could use something like "vidihi" for "ugly" and
"vidiqi" for "beautiful". I've seriously contemplated eliminating
these suffixes though.