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Re: [lojban-beginners] letter(as in note)/email endings?



{mu'o} doesn't signal the end of a transmission. It signals that the next word is the person/group you're talking to (although it can be prematurely terminated with {do'u}), and that you are then done.  {mi'e} means that the next word is your name.

{mi'e ___ mu'o} may have another word following it, indicating whom it was directed to.
{mu'o mi'e ___} has nothing following it, and doesn't explicitly say whom it's directed to.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Marjorie Scherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:
It appears that common practice for ending emails is to have {mu'o mi'e _______ }  where "________" is the name, but I recently noticed an email signature in which the writer used {mi'e ________ mu'o} which, once I thought about it, seems to make more sense. If {mu'o} is supposed to signal the end of the transmission, anything after that would be disregarded, and the self-introduction conventionally put at the end of emails and letters, if put after the {mu'o} instead of before, would seem to be excluded from the message. So when I actually think about it, it seems like {mi'e _________ mu'o} would make more sense than the more common {mu'o mi'e ________ } I more commonly see. I'm wondering whether my friend has has an insight missed by the majority of the most vocal lojbanists, or if there is some reason for the common form that I have not yet considered.

.i mi'e la .jdakrat.skaryzgik. mu'o

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