Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone. I'll be working actively on Alice soon.

On 29 Mar 2010, at 01:29, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> But I think the more interesting typographical question for Alice is not so much the use of capitals, but how to mark dialogue/quotes. I find  lu"..."li'u  quite hideous. I much prefer «lu ... li'u», which I
> think is what the ju'i lobypli used to use. Maybe something like this:
> 
> i «lu uo —sei la .alis. pensi— ba lo nu farlu tai ti kei mi na ba xanka le nu farlu fo le serti  .i «lu ua virnu —sei le lanzu tu'a mi ba jinvi li'u» .i .u'o mi noda cusku va'o ji'asai le nu mi farlu fi le
> drudi be le zdani (tosa'a la'e di'u la'a jetnu toi) li'u»

I don't think this is right. I don't think that the quotation marks should go outside the lu...liu pair.

Why not? Well, I'm thinking in terms of performance. You have a narrator... Say, Christopher Plummer is reading the text (as he does magnificently) and then he wants to change his voice when Alice is speaking. So when he is reading, using his normal voice for the narration and a falsetto voice for Alice.... are lu...liu falsetto, or normal?

I think normal. 

Discuss. :-)

Michael Everson


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