Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 13:23:01 EDT From: Bob LeChevalier To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: Questions X-From-Space-Date: Sat May 13 13:21:08 1995 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@access.digex.net Message-ID: Content-Length: 411 sei was originally added to the language in order to a) allow one to make metalinguistic statements about the text (and/or the speaker) and b) sspecifically to deal with describing how a quote was made (he says parenthetically). The latter can be inserted within the body of a text quote as "seisa'a" which amounts to a temporary unquote. Longer temporary unquotes cvan be made using tosa'a ...toi lojbab