[lojban] Comments inside quotations. {lu ... [sei ...se'u] ... li'u}. No solution?

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

{sei ... se'u} inside  {lu ...li'u} must be a part of the quote however xorxe's Alice in Wonderland uses that to translate quotes split into several parts. I'm not the only person who thinks that this is wrong.

IMO {sei} has at least three different meanings.

1. As an alternative to UI ({sei mi gleki ~= .ui})

2. As an alternative to moving the outer bridi into the inner bridi ({do melbi sei mi jinvi}={mi jinvi lo du'u do melbi})

3. To translate partitioned quotations.

Some time ago i proposed {xoi} to replace the second meaning of {sei}. And now here is my solution for the third meaning.

Proposal.

The same FA two times in a bridi should mean {je} according i.e.

{fe lo barda ku mi pu viska fe lo gerku}={mi pu viska lo barda je gerku}.

Needless to say that "it's a big dog" is rather {ko'a barda je gerku} rather than {ko'a barda gerku} as natlangish tanru i.e. metaphors i.e. noun phrases with adjectives are not necessary in a logical style of lojban.

Now such proposal allows us to express divided quotations

xorxe's solution: {lu ko klama mi sei la alis cu cusku se'u i mi djica lo nu catlu do li'u} (25 syllables)

gleki's solution:  {lu ko klama mi li'u se cusku la alis fa lu i mi djica lo nu catlu do li'u} (26 syllables)

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