Re: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations

["Cyril Slobin" <slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru>]

On 9-Jan-2004 17:02 Rob Speer wrote:

> What we've got already is sei - except, since you don't want to repeat
> "cusku" over and over, you'd have to end the sei with se'u, and here
> you're using quite a lot of syllables anyway:

> lu
> i sei la alis se'u ko'a
> i sei la bab se'u fo'a
> li'u

The grammar requires a full bridi after sei - cmene inside sei-se'u just
doesn't parse.

> You could also use to'i...toi for this.

> lu
> i to'i alis toi ko'a
> i to'i bab toi fo'a
> li'u

Yes, this works. Seems as a good solution for me.

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Cyril Slobin <slobin@slobin.ran.pp.ru>