From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 09 15:18:23 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Af5tS-0002K7-EC for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:18:18 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:18:18 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations Message-ID: <20040109231818.GZ18943@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <2.07b7.1BL5.HR8QG5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> <20040109215630.GG2666@skunk.reutershealth.com> <2.07b7.B4SD.HR8VS5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2.07b7.B4SD.HR8VS5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6944 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:57:41AM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > >> But in long conversation (imagine play text) the endless > >> repeatition of all this "said" (lojban "cusku") quickly became > >> boring. > > > One approach is to attach "cu'e la .alis." to bridi. > > As Adam noted, it is rather indirect quotation. And it works only > with full bridi; you cannot shorten {la .alis. cusku lu .e'osai > li'u} this way. .e'asai sei cu'u la .alis. would be read correctly by all be the most hostile of readers. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui