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From: Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>
Subject: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations
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--- Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> What we've got already is sei - except, since you don't want to repeat
> "cusku" over and over, you'd have to end the sei with se'u, and here
> you're using quite a lot of syllables anyway:
> 
> lu
> i sei la alis se'u ko'a
> i sei la bab se'u fo'a
> li'u

{sei} always requires a selbri though. You could say 
{sei la alis co'e ko'a}, with the same number of syllables.
In fact, I used {co'e} this way in the Alice translation,
for example as {sei la alis di'a co'e} for "Alice continued",
so as to avoid too many cuskus.   

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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