[lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I would take those to mean "As for Alice, I said an example
> sentence (to her?)." "As for Bob, I too (in addition to someone
> else) said a second example sentence (to him?)." The sentence is
> said by the speaker, and Alice and Bob are mentioned by the
> speaker.

Under normal circumstances, of course.

But if you saw:

    la .alis. cusku lu pamoi jufra li'u

    la .bab. cusku lu remoi jufra li'u

    la .alis. zo'u cimoi jufra

you would understand what had just happened, right?

If it's really an issue of confusion, the author just has to say:

    mi pilno lu ko'a zo'u jufra li'u le sinxa be lu ko'a cusku lu
    jufra li'u li'u

at the top somewhere.

-Robin

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