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Re: [lojban] sei
At 06:17 PM 06/05/2001 -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
A style of dialogue I've seen in other parts of Alice (I know stylistic issues
are supposed to wait until the end, but this is a huge difference) does the
obvious thing and uses lu...li'u as the x2 of {cusku} or the x1 of {preti} or
something of the sort. If the text needs to be interrupted in the middle, it
uses {fa} to return to the place containing the quote.
`What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. `Explain yourself!'
lu ma smuni di'u li'u se cusku .o'onairu'edai ga'idai le ciftoldi fa lu
ko ko ciksi li'u
This approach works only because of the peculiarities of dai, which in turn
are confined to attitudinal notes. There is an example in Saki's _The Open
Window_ which is when we first introduced sei, where the metalinguistic
comment in the middle of the quote is more than merely an indication of
attitude - such as modifying the above to be
`What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar, pointing at Alice
sternly, while pacing the floor. `Explain yourself!'
sei is limited only by what you can express in a selbri (and using
connectives and be/bei, that is quite a lot).
lojbab
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