Re: “ko pinxe mi” picture (was: Re: [lojban] Alice essay)

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

So, the question is whether the capitalization plays a special role in the English and whether the capitalization in Lojban plays a similar role.  That is hard to say, since Lojban uses capitals much less than English and so their use automatically takes on greater significance.  One has to consider each case in context.

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From: Wuzzy <almikes@aol.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:04 AM
Subject: “ko pinxe mi” picture (was: Re: [lojban] Alice essay)

On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 20:28:28 -0200
Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
So the first argument says it’s in all-caps in English, it has to in
Lojban, too. This is a strange argument. By extension, we could also
start every Lojbanic sentence with a capital letter because in the
English version, every sentence happens to be starting with a capital
letter as well, despite this is clearly against the rules.

I defeat the second argument by drawing a new picture for you :-). I
have changed the picture a little bit so the label does not read “DRINK
ME” but “ko pinxe mi”. I am not a very good artist, but I tried my best.
You find the PNG image in the attachment.

If you’re interested, I can also upload the XCF file for The GIMP and
also an image for “ko mi pinxe”. I uploaded “ko pinxe me” because it
slightly looks better in my opinion.

Lastly, the rules for which you write random words in all-caps seem to
be more or less random and inconsistent. From another e-mail I read that
“KREFU” was justified because it was a “metalinguistic comment”.



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