No, that's not John's sentence. John's
sentence (as finished by Mary) is (putting back in the "lo" I left out):
" mi djica lo bakni cidjrkari
.e lo sluni nanba ku'i lo pu'e na'e cpina jukpa" Remember. This is two
people talking.. One starts the setnence, the other finishes it, exactly as in
the English. If you and I were in a room, and you said, "Hey, we know
that girl" and I said, "From the party last night", you would
not say that together we are saying "Hey, we know that girl Michael said, 'From
the party last night' " (which even in English makes no sense). You would
say that together we said, "Hey we know that girl from the party last
night". I as the authoer of those sentence about
John and Mary are just reporting what THEY SAID. To the characters themselves,
there is no "John said"/"Mary said" in their lives.
Understand? --Michael
"gejyspa" Turniansky From:
lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Vid Sintef I see. On 5/18/07, Turniansky,
Michael [UNK] <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>
wrote: Remember that ".i" is not so much a sentence
_terminator_ as a sentence _separator_. It's often found at the
beginning of utterances to show that what you say has no connection to the
previous utterance (by you or another person) (and NOT usually at the
end). So the first sentence says: Ranjit says, "I want beef curry and onion
bread" The second says: Ranjit said, "Jhoti greeted me" Either could
have used or not used the .i at the beginning. It just makes it clear in
the course of conversation that you are not piling onto the previous
utterance. For example, consider this valid excahnge: la djan cusku lu mi djica lo bakni cidjrkari .e lo
sluni nanba li'u .i la meris cusku lu ku'i pu'e na'e cpina jukpa li'u John says, "I want beefy curre and onion bread" Mary says, "….but not cooked spicily". Without the ".i" in Mary's quote it continues
the sentence of John.
--gejyspa From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org
[mailto:
lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On
Behalf Of 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: |