Re: [lojban] How to translate special emphasis on a word ("terming")

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

    Well, one could use other fonts, or punctuation.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:21 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> How so languages without capital letters deal with this problem?
>
> stevo
>
> 2011/8/9 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>
>>
>> What about {lo co'e preti}? {lo pa preti}?
>>
>> In some languages, capitalization is used to indicate that an expresison
>> is
>> being used in a more specific meaning. So there are, e.g., questions and
>> Questions, which are a particular kind of question the author is talking
>> about.
>> In a more extreme case, there are questions and The Question.
>>
>> If that is the situation, a way of vaguely pointing the specificity
>> would be with
>> a tanru with an unspecific seltau, or maybe a lujvo.
>>
>> Another way is to use the cardinality as a vague way of indicating the
>> group of
>> special things you are talking about. {le ci nolraitru} -> The Three
>> Kings.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> mu'o
>> mi'e .asiz.
>>
>> On 21 July 2011 00:56, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > sa'ai tu'ifru le'ai .i pe'i lo sa'enai lerporfi'u (to I don't think
>> > there's
>> > an accepted word for dyslexia toi) te zmadu lo glibau la lojban
>> > Pardon the horrible lojban; I'm not thinking well.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:57:04 Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
>> >> > I once read {za'e} described as "scare quotes": e.g.
>> >> >
>> >> > The "human" standing before me nodded.
>> >> > {lo za'e remna poi sanli zvati lo crane be mi ti'ufru}
>> >>
>> >> ti'ufru ki'a? that decomposes to "tixnu frumu", i.e. "daughter frown".
>> >>
>> >> Pierre
>> >> --
>> >> li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
>> >> li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci
>> >>
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