Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 30 Mar 2010, at 16:03, Jonathan Jones wrote:

> Okay, I can deal with most of it.

My gast is a bit flabbered to hear it!

> I prefer the left example better. (Although I'd rather someone went in with a fine-toothed comb and put those denpa bu in where they belong.)

I get the impression that some people really like this and some people don't. 

> The right-side, I can deal with most of it. There is one thing in that example that is seriously grating, however. To use the first sentence: "...gi'e zukte fi noda. I abuboi...." This is horrible. Accepting your desire to capitalize for this example only, that phrase should be "...gie' zukte fi noda .i Abuboi....".

So you're treating .i like a danda, or | not belonging to either sentence? What do people think about that?

> {.i} is the Lojban word for the English period.

I wouldn't say so. The full stop in Latin (Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, etc.) marks the *end* of a sentence. {.i} is a "sentence separator" (What is Lojban, p. 66) which seems to be described as introducing a new sentence whilst continuing a theme. But at the bottom of the page it states that {.i} and {ni'o} "start a new sentence or paragraph". 

> If you're going to mark punctuation, I'd prefer you be consistent. For example, "lu<<...>>li'u" but "(to...toi)"? The punctuation should be the same, so "to(...)toi".

I want to discuss this in terms of narrative structure in due course. Not ready to do that yet. 

> I still don't like the capitalization.
> 
> I think that a proficient jbopre, preferably Jorge, he being the author, should go through your work and make sure that things such as what I've pointed out are corrected, such as putting the {.} in the right place, and preferably in all the places that {.} has been optionally removed.

Ill be delighted to work with Jorge of course.

Michael

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