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

[Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

2015-05-26 22:33 GMT+03:00 Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>:

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 short, the selbri (main verb) itself closes it by the virtue of how its grammar works. You may see something similar for {lo} in {lo broda} and similar constructs that in 90% of cases doesn't need any terminators (markers of the end of constructs).

However, I'd prefer not nesting {sei}-clauses inside {lu ... li'u} quotes since otherwise if you do want to quote a {sei}-clause you are left with uglier ways of doing so.

Also since probably this project aims at selling books I'd prefer replacing all compound words (lujvo) not in the dictionary with their expanded forms to make the reading easier for people still not fluent in Lojban.

As for “Victorian” typographic principles those are IMO compatible with Lojban.

2015-05-26 22:33 GMT+03:00 Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>:

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.

What other help needed? Personally I have in my ToDo updating the translation to make it easier to read by using less complex words and constructs. What is the deadline?

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