Re: [lojban] taiku ?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Craig scripsit:

> As a member of the generation that uses this like:
> It is not actually freestanding - a grammar has evolved of when it is and is
> not used. 

In particular, it is used as a marker of indirect and sometimes even
direct discourse:  standard "I said that P" comes out "I'm, like, P."

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