Re: [lojban] Alice essay

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:

 

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}.

Yes, "krefu" would have looked like it was a continuation of the preceding sentence.

BTW, this is not the only (or the first) use of all-caps in the text. The labels that Alice reads, KO MI PINXE and KO MI CITKA are also written in all-caps. In this case not just because the original does that, but also because there is a DRINK ME in one of the pictures and I thought that made for a better match between text and picture.

 

(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")

But "lo jukpa .e lo cifnu cu kansa" means that each of them was doing something with someone, not that they were doing something together. "lo jukpa joi lo cifnu cu kansi'u" would have worked though.

There are a some gismu like kansa, penmi, and a few others where I really don't like it when people use a plural in x1 and leave the x2 unfilled with the intention that it be taken as "reciprocally".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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