Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHJlj-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 02:07 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 07C09FEE ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 1:07:30 +0100 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:05:55 -0500 Reply-To: Jorge Llambias Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: le reroi cuplinfanva cuntu X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, jorge@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1232 Lines: 31 > > 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