Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:45:11PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 15:26, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> 
> > Setting words in italics when they are preceded by the emphasis marker “ba'e” is fine, but when they appear on their own it looks illiterate. (I presume you are merely copying the italics from some English master, and the emphasis somehow got lost in the English-to-Lojban translation.)
> 
> "Very" is italicized twice by Carroll. I don't know what "when they appear on their own it looks illiterate" means. When words appear in italics on their own it looks "illiterate"? 

Adam Lopresto already said most of what I wanted to say in response to this. Let me just add that an essential part of the Loglan/Lojban shtik is to minimize paralinguistic components of communication. We want all actual linguistic content to occur “in-band”, ie. as actual morphemes.

Again, it is not your fault that the Lojban translation you're working with failed to provide verbal emphasis.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
Inuktitut iis eesseentiiaallyy Fiinniish aas spooqqeen iin Greenlaand.
    --Clint Jackson Baker, via Essentialist Explanations

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