From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 09 15:36:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:36:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Af6Ay-0002XU-CE for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:36:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:36:24 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations Message-ID: <20040109233624.GE18943@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <2.07b7.1BL5.HR8QG5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2.07b7.1BL5.HR8QG5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6948 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 12:02:29AM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > But in long conversation (imagine play text) the endless > repeatition of all this "said" (lojban "cusku") quickly became > boring. In English we can use a shorter notation then: > > Alice: this. > Bob: that. to'i sa'a la .alis. toi is rather long, but bear in mind that there's nothing *especially* incorrect about: sa'a la .alis. zo'u mi cusku -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