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

[".arpis." <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com>]

ki'e

I'm not sure I like the "end of text" rule, but I now feel more
comfortable with just using {fu'o}.

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Adam Lopresto <adamlopresto@gmail.com> wrote:
> {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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