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Re: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations



--- "Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
> but those are different from
> 
> Alice said that John's a fool.
> 
> (indirect quote, may not have been her exact words), which is how I would
> translate:
> 
> cu'u la alis. la djan. bebna

It is even stronger. If I say that, I am not just reporting what 
Alice said, I am claiming that John is a fool and that Alice
is a sayer in that relationship that she has to John. But 
that John bebnas would be part of my claim, unlike the case of 
the indirect quote.

mu'o mi'e xorxes
 

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