[lojban-beginners] Re: Proper nested quotes

[Andy Graves <phil.andy.graves@gmail.com>]

Sorry Robin, I got my reply boxes mixed up. Meant to post that here, sorry:
>I think the problem is I'm doing this in English. I should try to do
an example in Lojban instead. Give me a few months and I'll propose
this question again hopefully!


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:23:06 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:04:55PM -0500, Andy Graves wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new, am on the tutorials, but I have a question that's
> > just bothering me.
> >
> > How do you properly do something like this:
> > The story says, "I told the young boy 'go west young man' and so he
> > went on his way."
> 
> lo lisri cu vasru lu mi minde lo tolcitno nanla se cu'u lu ko stici
> klama doi tolcitno nanmu li'u .i se ki'u bo ty ny cu cliva li'u
> 
> I didn't even try for the colloquialism of "went on his way".
> 
> -Robin
> 
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