From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 05 16:38:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 23:38:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 62431 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 23:38:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 23:38:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 23:38:59 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157QPU-0004IM-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:38:52 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:38:52 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] sei Message-ID: <20010605163852.L7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010605142934.E7842@digitalkingdom.org> <20010605181758.B940@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010605181758.B940@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote: > A style of dialogue I've seen in other parts of Alice (I know stylistic issues > are supposed to wait until the end, but this is a huge difference) does the > obvious thing and uses lu...li'u as the x2 of {cusku} or the x1 of {preti} or > something of the sort. If the text needs to be interrupted in the middle, it > uses {fa} to return to the place containing the quote. > > `What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. `Explain yourself!' > lu ma smuni di'u li'u se cusku .o'onairu'edai ga'idai le ciftoldi fa lu > ko ko ciksi li'u Woohoo! That's one of my quotes! I'm so proud. 8) Sorry, didn't read the whole mail before. 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/