Re: [bpfk] BPFK work

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/10/10 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
> wrote:
>>

>> ...[P]eople have NOT typically started their conversation turns with .i or
>> ni'o....
>
> I consider that a really bad practice, and I myself, except possibly on
> extremely rare occasions, always begin with {.i}.

And presumably you should begin every turn of your conversations with
".i mi'e .aionys." Otherwise, you can't use "mi" because in the text
you are expanding it (not your own text) "mi" already refers to a
different person. But I don't think I have noticed you doing that.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

No, I don't do that, and considering that {mi} means "the speaker(s)", it's always obvious that {mi} is referring to me when I'm speaking. Whether or not others are also being referred to with {mi}, that's something I leave up to context. If I wish to explicitly indicate that my use of {mi} includes others besides myself, I probably would, in that case, begin with {.i mi'e [the referents of mi]}, and refer to myself in the third person when I am referring to only myself during that conversation.

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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