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Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book
la'o me. Michael Everson .me cusku di'e
Hello, everyone. I am back.
This is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice and I’d
like to move forward with the project. To do that, I’d like to ask if
anyone would like to volunteer to work with me.
The goal is to experiment slightly, producing an Alice with
“Victorian” typographic principles. Proper names will be written with
capital letters. Stressed vowels (rare in that text) will have the
acute accent. Guillemets will go along with particles to indicate
citation. Full stops will be moved from the beginning of sentences
(marked with capital letters) to the end.
A bunch of people have experimented with this kind of typography. But
how do you intend to handle the first letter of each sentence? In
Lojban, pretty much every sentence begins with {.i}, so capitalizing the
"i" looks weird, but capitalizing the next word instead also does.
I need someone to help me deal with questions concerning nested
quotation, and narrative structure where the narrator interjects into
a quotation. The particle “sei" starts a metalinguistic discourse;
what ends one?
In both Alice and Oz, {sei}-clauses are always enclosed in em-dashes.
For some reason the online version of Alice at http://alis.lojban.org/
doesn't render the em-dashes, but they are there.
Oz uses the same style (http://selpahi.de/oz_plain.html), e.g. search
for this passage to see it all come together:
ni'o «lu lo vilcarbi'e ti muvdu doi .em. —sei xy fi lo speni cu cladu
cusku— .i mi ba kurji lo danlu li'u» .i ba bo bajra fa'a lo ta'ozda noi
lo bakni jo'u lo xirma cu se setca fi ke'a
I recall you being against that placement of « with respect to {lu}, is
that correct?
mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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