Re: PLI: evidentials in reported speech

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

And wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, And Rosta wrote:
>> > If you wanted to report me saying "JC (phwoar!) is playing G"
>> > then you might say "La and said lickerishly that JC is playing
>> > G", for example. Same goes for Lojban.
>>
>> Hmmm, would it be equivalent to say (in Lojban)
>>
>>    La and said that (phwoar-dai) JC is playing G
>>
>> placing the empathy-ized attitudinal after "lenu" or
>> between "le" and "nu"?  Or after "said", maybe?
>>
>> co'o do'u
>
>I'd have thought you need a BAI phrase modifying "said".

I think what people are groping for are "sei" metalinguistic comments.

If you want to add one of these you may 1) add it outside of a quote as
in "la .and. cusku sei [ckaji be leka me la likric] lu ... li'u
or for the kind of embedded speaker-identification often found in
writing: lu ... seisa'a la and. sekai leka me la likric kei cusku ... li'u
which in English would be "....", And said lickerishly, "...".
You do not need the sa'a if the words are not embedded into the quote.

lojbab