Re: [lojban] Roleplaying in Cantr

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 05:08:22PM +0100, tijlan wrote:
> On 3 July 2010 15:02, Timo Paulssen
> <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/03/2010 03:29 PM, Efrain Caro wrote:
> > > From my wrongly spawned English character, I have been seeing
> > > people leaving comments like "*she smiles* Yes, that's cheap
> > > cooking." That "*she smiles*" is obviously an action, not
> > > something that the character said. How could that be expressed
> > > in Lojban that could be grammatical Lojban?
> > >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sure you will find, that sei should help you with this.
> >
> 
> Plus {sa'a}, I guess. {sei ko'a cisma} accompanied by another
> (main) bridi looks to me more like a disjunct:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunct_(linguistics)
> 
>  (lu) .i do mo sei ko'a cisma (li'u)
>  (") How are you, as she smiles? (")
> 
>  (lu) .i do mo sei sa'a ko'a cisma (li'u)
>  (") How are you? [she smiles] (")

In Lojban, though, you'd do:

  .i do mo sei mi cisma

which does not have that problem.  Emotes are traditionally
3rd-person in English, but sei means we don't have to follow suit
necessarily.  If you were going to do it the 3rd person way it'd
just be:

  .i la .cmen. cisma gi'e cusku lu do mo li'u

That's how we handled in for the MOO, IIRC.

This is also how I do it in English:

  03-10:01  * rlpowell smiles and says "Just an emote test."

The example given is, IMO, very bad style for an English emote.

-Robin

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