From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Aug 18 10:28:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 17:28:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 28563 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 17:28:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 17:28:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 17:28:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7IHSp621659 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:28:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:28:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Not only does not all direct speech end in "unquote", but nor is every > "quote" matched by an "unquote" (as, for example, a search of the web > or of online text corpora should show). > > I went to my congressman, and he said, quote: > "I'd sure like to help you son, but you're too young to vote". Hey, some of our terminators get elided too. But they are still terminators! The unquote is there in spirit; you're expected to know where it goes. ----- "I have never been active in politics or in any act against occupation, but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel," one of the witnesses said.