Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:53:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711140553.AAA17229@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Non-figurative lojban as a "style" X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 954 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Nov 14 00:53:45 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >I propose that rather than worry about figurative Lojban too much we = >simply coin some english or lojban terms for two different lojban = >"styles" -- one allowing things like unmarked irony, metonymy, allegory, = >etc., and one not. (There's probably a better linguistic term for this = >-- mode? register? mood? dialect? pragmalect?) =20 No need to coin such terms. We designed them into the language. fu'epe'a means that the following text until fu'o involves some k ind of figurative usage(s). lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.