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On 5/18/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What exactly is the role or logic of colon in Lojban? Is it a genuine and
> exclusive substitution for "cusku", or can it also behave like a sentence
> separator as does in English?


There is no colon in Lojban. As Adam said, they and the 'A'/'B' are just
English-style dialog indicators.

In the online parser jboski, a colon is interpreted as {pi'e}. But I haven't
seen the colon used that way recently.

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

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On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vid Sintef</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:picos.picos@gmail.com">picos.picos@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What exactly is the role or logic of colon in Lojban? Is it a genuine and exclusive substitution for &quot;cusku&quot;, or can it also behave like a sentence separator as does in English?</blockquote><div><br>There is no colon in Lojban. As Adam said, they and the &#39;A&#39;/&#39;B&#39; are just English-style dialog indicators.
<br><br>In the online parser jboski, a colon is interpreted as {pi&#39;e}. But I haven&#39;t seen the colon used that way recently.<br><br>mu&#39;o mi&#39;e komfo,amonan<br></div><br></div><br>

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