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Re: [lojban] sei
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:29:34PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:10:27AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > > i lu ki'u ma do'o te cmene ra lu ractu canmi'a li'u va'o le nu ra na
> > > ractu sei la alis te preti li'u
> >
> > How does that work? Shouldn't "la alis te preti" be outside the
> > lu...li'u?
>
> I was going to ask that myself. The style of dialogue used in Alice seems to
> involve "sei", which appears to be used to back out of a quotation temporarily.
Ahem.
_Some_ parts of Alice. I don't use it.
-Robin
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http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest.
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