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Re: [lojban] Implicit backward-facing scope for attitudinals



{fu'o} without {fu'e} is what I'd suggest, but I'll admit that it's not spelled out in the official docs. The grammar can't enforce {fu'e...fu'o} balancing, so it's up to the semantics to decide what happens if they're unbalanced. When I was writing up that section of the BPFK, I put it that they can nest (again, never before mentioned), that {fu'e} without {fu'o} goes to end of text, and that {fu'o} without {fu'e} goes to start of text. Oh, and that the effected attitudinal can be after the {fu'e} or the {fu'o}. These all seem like reasonable, backwards compatible extensions, and I don't see any reason why we'd need an experimental cmavo for it.

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
My first thought was {fu'o} without {fu'e}, but I know better... Say,
after typing (or saying) a paragraph, I would like to reveal that I
was being sarcastic the entire time. This roughly resembles the
occasionally used in geeky forums "</sarcasm>" construct without a
corresponding opening tag. I've also found myself wanting this for
other emotions and after some thought, recognized that I basically
want it to apply to UI.

As far as I know, this isn't expressible in lojban (not that it's
expressible in any other language I know), but it's something people
have a desire to do.

Does this warrant an experimental cmavo, or should it be left as is,
with something like {no'i je'u nai} (or something else) standing in?

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mu'o mi'e .arpis.

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