From slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru Fri Jan 09 15:00:08 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: slobin.ran.pp.ru!slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 62909 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 23:00:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Jan 2004 23:00:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO castle.ran.pp.ru) (213.134.196.14) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 22:59:59 -0000 Received: from castle.ran.pp.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castle.ran.pp.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i09Mxvk5008103 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:59:58 +0300 Received: from slobin.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by castle.ran.pp.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with UUCP id i09Mxvuk008101 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:59:57 +0300 Received: by slobin.ran.pp.ru (dMail for DOS v2.07b7, 18Jul00); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:57:41 +0300 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <2.07b7.1BL5.HR8QG5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> <20040109215630.GG2666@skunk.reutershealth.com> Message-Id: <2.07b7.B4SD.HR8VS5@slobin.ran.pp.ru> Organization: Point of View Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:57:41 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.07b7] Lines: 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 213.134.196.14 From: "Cyril Slobin" Subject: Re: [lojban] shorthand for conversations X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=170537354 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21421 coi >> But in long conversation (imagine play text) the endless repeatition of >> all this "said" (lojban "cusku") quickly became boring. > One approach is to attach "cu'e la .alis." to bridi. As Adam noted, it is rather indirect quotation. And it works only with full bridi; you cannot shorten {la .alis. cusku lu .e'osai li'u} this way. co'o mi'e kir. -- Cyril Slobin