From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Fri Jan 09 16:36:48 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41906.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Af77L-0003PH-4K for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:36:43 -0800 Message-ID: <20040110003612.62440.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.69.6.36] by web41906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:36:12 PST Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:36:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040110001320.GH18943@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 6957 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > But if you saw: > > la .alis. cusku lu pamoi jufra li'u > la .bab. cusku lu remoi jufra li'u > la .alis. zo'u cimoi jufra > > you would understand what had just happened, right? I would probably understand, but that doesn't make it right, or desirable, or whatever. I would understand this too: alis: coi bab bab: coi alis In the case of a play, something like that is what should be used probably, because "alis:" and "bab:" are not meant to be pronounced by anyone, so they need not be a part of the parsable text. > If it's really an issue of confusion, the author just has to say: > > mi pilno lu ko'a zo'u jufra li'u le sinxa be lu ko'a cusku lu > jufra li'u li'u > > at the top somewhere. And give up the use of zo'u with its normal meaning in the whole text? Seems like too high a price to pay. Also, it means that if you want to quote some short part of the text that doesn't include the introduction you have to explain that the use of zo'u is nonstandard. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus