[lojban] Re: Dereferencing sumti referring to selbri

[Daniel Brockman <daniel@gointeractive.se>]

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:04 -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On 8/25/08, Daniel Brockman <daniel@gointeractive.se> wrote:
> > So in essence what you're saying, xorxes, is that you think
> >
> >   .i mi me la'e zo'oi fluent la .lojban.
> >
> > is totally fine?
> 
> Right. (.fluent. has to be between pauses like .lojban.)

In speech, yes.  In writing, whitespace is more natural, since the pause
symbol is specifically Lojbanic while the quote is foreign: it can be
any string of symbols.  To say {zo'oi} in written text quotes any string
of non-blank characters (including periods or any other special symbols)
is simple and useful.

Foreign quotation is inherently non-AV-isomorphic anyway so it buys us
nothing to pretend that we're dealing with AVI Lojban words.

You probably can't pronounce {zo'oi http://www.lojban.com/} without
glottal stops, so you might have to switch to {zoi} when pronouncing.

On the other hand, the same problem already exists with {zoi}, since
even though the quote mark word does not appear in the foreign written
text it may turn out to occur when pronouncing the foreign text.


-- 
Daniel Brockman
daniel@gointeractive.se



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