Subject: Re: [lojban] za'e "postnex"

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:24:00 -0500 (EST)

And Rosta scripsit:

> I agree that the way forward for Lojban is to have robust ways of
> indicating which dialect is being used. Unmarked or unclear mixing
> of dialects is what is to be avoided, because in that way meaning
> becomes indeterminate.

The trouble is that the conventions have to be cross-dialectal to work well.
In particular, what about dialects like formal written English, which admits
no other dialects save in quotation marks?

(Just being difficult.)

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