[lojban-beginners] Re: the ".i" after "lu"

["Turniansky, Michael [UNK]" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

  Adam, I think the question was more about the dropping of the ".i"
within the dialog itself, which strictly speaking, should have been
there.

                    --gejyspa


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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:14 AM
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: the ".i" after "lu"

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Vid Sintef wrote:

> I understand Michael's point.
> However, some collections of text on www.lojban.org show sentences
without
> being separated by ".i".
> The following is from "terpa lo tirxu":
> 
> A: doi patfu do terpa xu lo tirxu
> B: na go'i
> A: xu go'i lo cinfo
> B: si'a na go'i
> A: je'e .ija'o do terpa le mamta po'o
> 
> Is this omission of ".i" a permissive, casual application for an
aesthetic
> reason?
> Or should it be avoided as is the case in Elmo's example?

That text is *not* lojban.  Think of it more as a script.  The text
after the
colons is lojban, but the framing structure (with the colons, newlines,
and
such) isn't.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
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