[lojban] Re: comics

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

TIME FOR SOME AGREEING!!

On Oct 21, 10:06 pm, Luke Bergen <lukeaber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I know.  I just enjoy ribbing lindar about places were cu is better.
>  Similar to how he enjoys pointing out errors that he ascribes to an overuse
> of cu where terminators would have worked "better" ;)

At this point I think it's two halves of the culture poking fun. We
have different dialects.
I think it is very clever to have dropped the end-quote, but it sounds
very strange to me.

> All in good fun.

Oh most definitely.

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jameson Orndorff <jtorndo...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Luke, despite what Lindar constantly babbles on about, our method does
> > NOT shun {cu}. It never has. It never will. (Or at least, I never
> > will.) We just teach it later. We teach it, in my mind, better,
> > because we don't teach it like a crutch. We put terminator as the
> > emphasis, with {cu} mentioned as a tool that can be used, instead of
> > vise versa. I think it promotes a stronger fundamental knowledge of
> > when terminators are needed.

Ehm, I've resigned that argument. It's a dialectal thing.
It's most definitely better to do what you're describing (cu later as
a tool not a crutch), and I'm not going to knock anybody for
nonfa'orma'o selsku. We've got two major dialects with several sub-
dialects all evolving at once. Some people gravitate to {ca ku mi
broda} instead of {mi ca broda}, some use fa'orma'o and others don't,
and so on. It's lovely seeing how in a single set of grammar we can
have dialects.

> > And using {cu} to cut out of a quote should be something any competent
> > lojbanist can do - kudos to anyone who does it.

Seriously. I should have provided praise there as it was very clever,
I had just never seen it done before, and it looked strange to me.
Major kudos for inventive phrasing in nonfa'orma'orbau.

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