From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 16 19:40:34 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ILrlI-0001zK-H4 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:33 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ILrl9-0001ys-JX for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:31 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a25so725132pyi for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=EiRNyLqw//RDE6FvgXEbXIPzqB3VEvjUrzuYkpjaOpoALKd3VTX1eVKkUBPmQUt7DtGkE7KejzT46J2Znw13Zo448JvXa8Tz2nnop0U0DWX4TbG9VZyNQ7ozAOZCepaWzX/oWpUvpQ+TVa3qYiSTGJ/kpmKzBua17L+8WMwrheI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=jW9l7z967OPF9KpC3CPVJcVNEuc4b9NnXUscD02EfNQ/O86LyyzjjbluCL8BnOW7KHKMR5q1DnZ5qbq3Wbedcf0FrcmZ3KkOIcJdkNPzrXitSmlX4o85BXD2I9yuzJ6BTS1OPPy/KSIv0WJepLdOm4GqjFQP3eLEVIxso4AQaEo= Received: by 10.65.183.7 with SMTP id k7mr4346259qbp.1187318410332; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.191.16 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <702226df0708161940u7b5bea70iadaa409472e69bd3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:40:10 -0600 From: "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org, "lojban list" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Onomatpoeia MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_73051_10163265.1187318410305" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5377 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: eyeonus@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_73051_10163265.1187318410305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Okay, I'm sure I've seen something about this before, but I can't find it, so: How are onomatopoeias handled in Lojban? For those who don't know already, I'm referring to things like "Moo", "Oink", "Bang!" and such. Is quoting the only way, as in ("The cow says 'Moo'."), or is there some other, less wordy alternative, like being able to say instead of for Lojban quotes? -- mu'o mi'e .topy'at. .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu ------=_Part_73051_10163265.1187318410305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Okay, I'm sure I've seen something about this before, but I can't find it, so:

How are onomatopoeias handled in Lojban? For those who don't know already, I'm referring to things like "Moo", "Oink", "Bang!" and such.

Is <zoi> quoting the only way, as in <le bakni cusku zoi by. moo .by.> ("The cow says 'Moo'."), or is there some other, less wordy alternative, like being able to say <zo karce> instead of <lu karce li'u> for Lojban quotes?

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