From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Oct 26 13:02:06 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 2901 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2004 20:02:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Oct 2004 20:02:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 20:02:06 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CMXUc-0004GN-B2 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:00:30 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMXTP-0004CA-4F; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:59:15 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CMXSq-0004Bc-O4 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:58:40 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:58:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20041026195840.GM14527@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20041020225305.GE32722@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20041021004841.85102.qmail@web51607.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041021004841.85102.qmail@web51607.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-archive-position: 8860 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: jordis X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23266 On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:48:41PM -0700, jordi mas wrote: > The problem is, in comics sometimes sentences are split into > baloons in such a way that reordering the word order into normal > English order doesn't work. > > I mean, the original says something like " luminous beings / we > are " which in the original language is an unmarked word order, > split in two different frames. [snip] > Can I use the {fa} {se} etc. just to put the words in the order I > want with no special emphasis intended? I see no problem with that. I suggest putting the selbri at the front for least emphasis, such as: gusni prenu / fa ma'a -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/