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



On 24 Dec 2012, at 17:05, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I disapprove of sei-within-lu for partitioned quotes, for the simple reason that one can't unambiguously determine whether the sei-clause is actually spoken, unless {sa'a} is used (which it usually isn't).

I have also found it troublesome in texts with quotation marks. The comment is certainly the narrator's, and that is not the quotation.

Michael Everson

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