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Re: Mark on wiki on lerfu
--- In lojban@y..., "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@l...> wrote:
> You could have a convention
> that ko'V is used for males and fo'V for females, or in a dispute
use
> members of each series to represent different camps ("them", and
"the
> others"). I vaguely recall that Athelstan may have used both
series in his
> translation of Saki's _The Open Window_ but I can't recall the
specifics.
I used {ko'a} and {fo'a} in my ckafybarja story. I had {ko'a} in
the main story, and used {fo'a} (etc) in the story-within-a-story.
Not completely realistic: why would the storyteller choose to start
with the {fo'a} series just on his own? But I did it anyway, to cut
down on confusion.
~mark