From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 05 23:06:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 06:06:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 68024 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 06:06:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 06:06:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 06:06:32 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157WSb-0000Rl-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:06:29 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:06:29 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] sei Message-ID: <20010605230629.O7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010605142934.E7842@digitalkingdom.org> <20010605142934.E7842@digitalkingdom.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010606015233.00b93a60@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010606015233.00b93a60@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:58:19AM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 06:17 PM 06/05/2001 -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 > > This approach works only because of the peculiarities of dai, which in turn > are confined to attitudinal notes. Ummm, I wasn't clear that the attitudinals had anything to do with the issue at hand. -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/