Hello everybody!
I've been wondering something for a while about ZOI quotes. They
exist for enabling incorporating things that aren't Lojbanic text
or utterance into a Lojban sentence. For instance they ebable you
inserting visual things that aren't Lojban text, such as foreign
language writting or pictures (written medium), or non-Lojbanic
utterances or sounds (spoken speech).
This is certainly quite useful, but it results in a break in the
audio-visual isomorphism of the langage. This isn't much of a
problem with foreign language quotes (provided that the reader
knows the language used), phonetic transcriptions and other
codings that have both a written and a spoken form; however,
pictures and non-linguistics sounds (for example) are more
problematic.
My questions are the followings:
• How to read out loud a written ZOI quote containing a picture?
I always thought one should use references to objects from outer world. For that we have LE.
If there were a way to replace (in direct quotes/transcriptions)
the content of the ZOI quote with an alternative Lojbanic
description (such as a description of the picture within such a
quote), this would solve this problem, but I can't think of a
clean way of doing so without altering too much the sentence
content (thus breaking direct quotation/transcription). For
instance, {to'i} doesn't seem of much help here. :)
Any idea or comment would be greatly appreciated. ♪
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