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

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

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 10:22:54 PM UTC+4, tsani wrote:

On 25 December 2012 09:01, la gleki <gleki.is...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 5:39:20 PM UTC+4, aionys wrote:

Just as my-two-cents comment, I would like to say that I too dislike the use of {sei ... se'u} for split quoting. As it stands right now, there isn't really any other option, although I think I like the idea of FAlu for that purpose, as gleki spoke of earlier.

I'll wait until tsani replies. I'm not a legislative power in Lojbanistan.

Haha, I'm glad to see people actually thinking that I have some voice around here. Regardless, I don't really, given the dictatorial nature of Lojbanistan.

It doesn't matter. Any dictator will lose their power in Lojbanistan. It's not that "controlled development" described by camgusmis in "Lojban you are doing it wrong" essay. Fluent speakers + logical thinking decide and I will ignore any dictators unless there are many of them.

 

To return to the main question, using sei to split quotes has some inherent ambiguity; using sa'a merely diminishes it, I think. That being said, I don't like the idea of split quotes at all. they seem unlojbanic, especially considering that the resulting sentence is not a bridi. It's just a free-floating sumti between two {.i}. I don't have any objections to using FAlu, but I think that it's stylistically poor.

Your reply appeared to be much easier  than i could expect.

I also think it's a poor style. Nevetheless, if we apply {ju'e} then won't it be

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 second solution:  {lu ko klama mi li'u se cusku la alis fa lu mi djica lo nu catlu do li'u} (25 syllables, splitting sumti implies {ju'e})

?

If so there are no extra syllables compared to the previous solution.

pei?

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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