Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/3/31 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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').

What kind of shift do you mean?

(1) from "lo blabi ractu" to "le blabi ractu"
(2) from "lo blabi ractu" to "la blabi ractu"
(3) from "lo blabi ractu" to "la Blabi Ractu"
(4) from "lo Blabi Ractu" to "la Blabi Ractu"

(1) is what I have, and the closest to the ordinary English shift from
'a' to 'the', with no caps.
(2) is not like an ordinary English shift, but it treats "blabi ractu"
as a name at least from the second time it appears.
(3) is like (2), plus typographic capitalization of names,
"audio-visual isomorphism" neutral.
(4) is the closest to the original, unusual style used by Lewis
Carrol, but the least "audio-visually isomorphic", since the namehood
suggested by the written "lo Blabi Ractu" is lost in spoken form.

I would prefer, in order, 2,1,3,4. I'd rather have 2 than 1, 1 than 3, 3 than 4.
 

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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