From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 05 15:26:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 22:26:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 31984 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 22:23:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 22:23:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 22:23:37 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157PEZ-0003JW-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:23:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:23:31 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] sei Message-ID: <20010605152331.H7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010605142934.E7842@digitalkingdom.org> <20010605181758.B940@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010605181758.B940@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7552 On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:29:34PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:10:27AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > > i lu ki'u ma do'o te cmene ra lu ractu canmi'a li'u va'o le nu ra na > > > ractu sei la alis te preti li'u > > > > How does that work? Shouldn't "la alis te preti" be outside the > > lu...li'u? > > I was going to ask that myself. The style of dialogue used in Alice seems to > involve "sei", which appears to be used to back out of a quotation temporarily. Ahem. _Some_ parts of Alice. I don't use it. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/