Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[iesk <pa.fae@gmx.de>]

Le dimanche 26 août 2012 14:16:54 UTC+2, xorxes a écrit :
 A different issue are symbols like 1, 2, 3 that stand for words, or if

 you were to use « as replacement for lu rather than in addition to it.

 In that case the reader needs to know how to pronounce the symbol,

 which now is part of the text, and its location obviously has to be

 where the spelled out word would have been.

ta'a

Cf. http://www.loglan.org/Texts/nepo-neri-vizgoi.html
and: ‘Note the use of the Loglan left-quotation-mark «, pronounced /li/, of course. When we see this mark, or any other abbreviating mark, we know that the writer is "punctuating" w's text. We can then expect w to use punctuation marks instead of punctuation words, letterals instead of letter words, and numerals instead of number words throughout w's composition.’

I think it’s interesting, but horrible. .e'o mi'o na'e zukte tai la'e do'i

Btw, I think that {«lu … li’u»} looks better than {lu« … »li'u}. I think that «Swiss» looks better than »German«, and »German« looks better than »Swedish», but as you can see, different people do things in different ways and are used to different styles.

Regarding for Mr Christopher Plummer’s hypothetical performance: I think he could do {«lu … li’u»} just fine, as French narrators apparently have no problems with {« Quotation quotation, says the speaker, quotation quotation. »}. In some books, a single opening quotation marks the beginning of a whole block of dialogue, which ends with a single closing quotation mark. In other books, there is an opening quotation mark at the beginning of every single line of text, and just one closing mark at the end.

Many people are used to ‘technical’ (character-exact) quotation today, but that’s not the only way to use quotation marks. In Lojban, especially, we can take some liberties because, supposedly, real confusion cannot arise.

I think the style adopted for http://alis.lojban.org/ is good. (The only thing that slightly irritates me is that there are no dots at rising diphthongs, ie {ui} where I would have expected {.ui} and would utter a glottal stop.)

-iesk

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