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

[Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>]

On 26 May 2015, at 22:57, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> 
> 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."
> 
> The terminator for "sei" is "se'u", but it is very often elidible.

Well, it’s YOUR language, guys, but that pretty much defeats the predictability of the system. If you have sei/se’u alongside lu/li’u, why can on be elided but the other not?

Some sort of normal typography would yield:

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» li'u. 

>  Is the position of a closing em-dash predictable?
> 
> Yes, but you need to parse the sentence.

Then it’s not predictable. 

> The most common case is right after a selbri, usually "cusku":  --sei X cusku—

I’ve seen that, yes. 

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

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