Re: [bpfk] BPFK work

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/10/8 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

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

.i ganai da'aroi lonu ranji jufra cu pilno zo .i gi na go'i

-- 
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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