From phma@oltronics.net Wed Nov 14 13:15:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 14 Nov 2001 21:15:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 41754 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 21:15:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Nov 2001 21:15:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.225) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 21:14:53 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 687093C575; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:44 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: li'o Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:37 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0111141243370L.16388@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12146 I see {li'o} used a lot in Alice to indicate that the speaker didn't finish his sentence. For example: @c `May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone, @c going down on one knee as he spoke, `we were trying--' i lu doi banli nobli sei la rel ca le nu cpanygau lo cidni le foldi cu cumla mutce tonga cusku i mi'a troci li'o li'u I thought that {li'o} indicated that the speaker said something that the quoter is omitting. How do we indicate that the speaker broke off a sentence? phma