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

[Elmo Todurov <todurov@gmail.com>]

Ühel kenal päeval (reede 18 mai 2007 2:14 pm) kirjutas Vid Sintef:
> Along the course "Lojban For Beginners" I saw sentences with the direct
> quotation word being followed by the sentence terminator ".i", like this:
> la ranjit cu cusku lu .i mi djica lo bakni cidjrkari .e lo sluni nanba li'u
> On the other hand, there are also sentences without ".i" after "lu":
> la ranjit. pu cusku lu la djiotis. pu rinsa mi li'u
> What is the difference between them?

Very little. Theoretically one might talk in several short sentence-parts, 
like
la.ranjit.cusku lu mi crino li'u
la ranjit cisma
la ranjit cusku lu je cmalu gi'e xabju la.mars li'u
In this case the .i should be inserted there in the beginning of a new 
sentence. On the other hand, common sense would suggest citing whole 
sentences at once.

In short, stay on the safe side and use .i.

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