Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 19:50:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712130050.TAA26509@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: Re: debating style and attitudinals X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 853 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Dec 12 19:50:42 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >[ta'o] peppering text with attitudinals, discursives etc. might be a = good >idea overall .i'ecai ba'a people may be more likely to take the time to look up and = learn some words if they're sprinkled through English text, and they can = read enough of it to interest them in looking up the remaining words. = An english text with 10 lojban words in it may be less intimidating than = a 10-word Lojban text, although reading it will teach vocabulary without = grammar. >if And, in one of his >characteristically vitriolic postings, were to write [le'uro'u] instead = of >[le'uro'e]!). And whatever the rights and wrongs of it, [pe'u] no = ironic >attitudinals! .ua .u'udai zo'o While exhorting others not to make errors, you've made = the error of replacing le'o with le'u in both examples -- which happens = to be the end-error-quote. =20 chris