Re: [lojban] shorthand for conversations

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:29AM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote:
> But in long conversation (imagine play text) the endless
> repeatition of all this "said" (lojban "cusku") quickly became
> boring. In English we can use a shorter notation then:
> 
>     Alice: this.
>     Bob: that.

The cononical way of doing "Foo: Bar" in Lojban is:

la alis zo'u mi cusku le mupli jufra
la bab zo'u mi ji'a cusku le remoi mupli jufra

-Robin

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