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Re: [lojban] Alice essay


- “KREFU” is still used and still wrong—wheather I am a nitpicker or
not. This has nothing to do with alternative orthographies, since the
text uses the standard alphabet. And the word is in all-caps for no
apparent reason. What does “KREFU”, in contrast of “krefu”, even mean?
 
In this case {KREFU} is supposed to be a metalinguistic comment; the fact that it is strangely written makes that more clear than if it had been written {krefu}.
 
- “lu”…“li'u” still missing. Damning or not, not using the quotes
changes the sense of the sentences. Try to read the text aloud, maybe
you’ll see (or hear) the problem here. Indentation other other
typographic conventions should never replace words in Lojban.

While I would have used quotes there, but I'm not going to argue with xorxes when it comes to stylistic choices.

(Hypocritically, I have a stylistic choice to argue about: I would have, instead of {lo jukpa lo cifnu cu kansa}, said {lo jukpa .e lo cifnu cu kansa}; in the original text, the line is "the cook and the baby joined", not "the cook joined the baby")

Also, it's overreaching to say that typographical conventions should _never_ replace words; think of a webpage with sidebars and menus, for example. A more compelling statement would be that they should never replace words in straight-line text, which one could easily argue this is (were the song in a LaTeX figure, for example, it would be harder to argue).
 
PS: “ka'enai” is indeed not grammatical, because it is not allowed to
construct “CAhA NAI” according to the YACC. Unless you can show me via
the YACC that “ka'enai” *is* grammatical, I will stand my ground. Ask
lojbab if you’re still not convinced.

My bad.
 

PPS: WTF? There are seriously people who oppose a lujvo dictionary?
Man. That’s a very stupid idea. It’s so stupid, I may write another
e-mail about it.

I'm pretty sure that page is less about people who oppose a lujvo dictionary as it is a collection of arguments people have made against one.
 
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