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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> There is an exception, however: I care very little about how stress
> is indicated. Stress marking (specifically between using caps or
> using an accent mark) has been a long-standing point of largely
> non-acrimonious discussion; as far as I can tell, that's an issue on
> which the community is somewhat divided, but no-one really cares all
> that much.
And it would be silly anyway to waste much time discussing that
particular issue for Alice, since as Michael pointed out it affects a
single word in the whole book. (Which chapter does the name appear,
BTW? I can't seem to find it.)
I think the only place caps are used in the translation is in:
lu la'e di'u krinu le nu zo CILRE cmene i jdika le ka temci kei lo
cacra be li ba'e CI ca ro djedi be li ba'e RE li'u
Italics is probably a much better idea than caps for that.
> Contrast this with using captials to mark the beginning of sentences
> or proper names which, as And says, is very much not-OK to most
> Lojbanists.
It does look weird once you get used to no caps.
But I think the more interesting typographical question for Alice is
not so much the use of capitals, but how to mark dialogue/quotes. I
find lu"..."li'u quite hideous. I much prefer «lu ... li'u», which I
think is what the ju'i lobypli used to use. Maybe something like this:
i «lu uo —sei la .alis. pensi— ba lo nu farlu tai ti kei mi na ba
xanka le nu farlu fo le serti .i «lu ua virnu —sei le lanzu tu'a mi
ba jinvi li'u» .i .u'o mi noda cusku va'o ji'asai le nu mi farlu fi le
drudi be le zdani (tosa'a la'e di'u la'a jetnu toi) li'u»
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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