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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
Nice point. I don't see a solution except to shift after the introduction, a not-unheard of pattern (e.g. English 'a' and 'the').
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From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, March 30, 2010 4:38:32 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 3. As for capitalizing words that are not cmene but Lojban phrases, the easiest generally satisfactory way would seem to be to convert all the 'lo's (but surely they all should have been 'le's) to 'la's.
We(*) struggled a bit with this issue, whether "the White Rabbit" (and
most of the other characters) should be "le blabi ractu" or "la blabi
ractu", and I'm not sure that the final version is completely
consistent. (In fact, I'm almost sure it is inconsistent across
characters, but hopefully at least consistent for each character. The
across character inconsistency should probably be fixed.)
The problem is that the first appearance of the character is usually
something like:
...when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her...
Using "la" there is really awkward. Even "le" is iffy. But thereafter
he becomes 'the White Rabbit'.
It almost means something like "...when suddenly a white rabbit with
pink eyes (hereafter known as 'the White Rabbit') ran close by her..."
I think we ended up using "lo" the first time at least sometimes, and
then "le" or "la", but using "la" throughout doesn't seem like a
terribly appealing option.
(*) "We" because I was not the only one doing the translation, even
though I was responsible for the final revision, as this started as a
community project. I know that two or three other people did a chapter
or so each, but I don't remember who they were. I think Pierre was one
of them. If you were one, and want to be acknowledged, speak up!
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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