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Re: [bpfk] BPFK work
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My point is, if something said by a second person is always treated as
> separate text, how does the mother finish her child's sentence?
How can we be 100% sure that she intends to do it? We can't. I think
And Rosta did propose a cmavo for indicating "continuation of previous
speaker's utterance" once. You might find it in the experimental cmavo
page.
> And since Lojban is supposed to be umambiguous, it has to be one way or the
> other. Either a new speaker is always a new jufra, or only at the next {.i},
> which is my preferred reading. (Or listening.)
A new speaker is by default a new text. Anything else is unreasonable,
since it makes your utterances dependent on things you may not have
control over.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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