Message-Id: <199511200019.TAA12884@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:05:55 -0500
Reply-To: Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: le reroi cuplinfanva cuntu
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR

> > cu pamei sanli i ne'i le bitmu lo romoi voksa cu cusku sei krefu sei krefu
> > ca ji'a le nu le solri ba'o galbi'o gi'e tergu'i le rokspi derxi e le bumru
> > kei lu cabdei detri fa li mupi'ebipi'erenorexa i cabdei detri fa
> > li mupi'ebipi'erenorexa i cabdei detri li'o li'u
>
> How do these {sei} work?

I've started using {sei} as an adverbifier. I don't really understand what
it's supposed to be used for, but it is often very convenient to have
selbri modifiers other than stuck directly to the selbri. I suppose
{fi'o se krefu ku} would do as well, but it is longer and has a terminator.

> And doesn;t there need to be a {seu}?

The second {sei krefu} gets attached to the first {krefu} according to the
parser, but that seems ok: repeatedly repeating. The following {ca ji'a}
does not get sucked into the sei.

> How can you tell whether the {lio} is quoted or not?

Good question... What if the voice actually did say the word {li'o}?
I don't know. Maybe I should have said {li'osa'a}.

> (Same question
> for {si, sa, su} - how do you quote these?)

Same answer. Perhaps {sisa'a} to actually delete a word within a quote,
and {si} if that is what the person said. (What if the person actually
said {sisa'a}?)

Jorge