Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book

[Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>]

On 26 May 2015, at 21:00, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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’ll capitalize the first word of each sentence, even if it is “I”. 

>> 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.

What ends a sei-clause? Or, what ends a sei-clause when the interpolation comes in the middle of one sentence? “Give me,” John said, “a reason to go home."

> 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

Most of the closing em-dashes in Oz precede .i or precede li’u.. but here

Ni’o lu «Uo —sei la Alis cu pensi— mi ba lo nu farlu tai ti cu ba na xanka lo nu farlu fo lo serti. 

“Well!” thought Alice to herself. “After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs!

What’s; happening here? Is the position of a closing em-dash predictable?

> I recall you being against that placement of « with respect to {lu}, is that correct?

Yes, because in performance, it seems to me that “lu/li’u” would be in the voice of the narrator, while what is between the quotation marks would be in the voice of the character. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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