History: BPFK Section: Digressives

Proposed Definitions And Examples

sei (SEI)

Starts a discursive (metalinguistic) bridi used to express the speaker's state, opinion or beliefs about the surrounding sentence(s). The discursive bridi can't have trailing sumti unless linked to the selbri with BE/BEI/BEhO. (cf. se'u, be, bei, be'o)

.i ku'i fe'e mo'a roi trene sei mi zo roi kelci pilno

But there are trains in too few places (to use "roi" playfully).

se'u (SEhU)

Terminator for SEI and SOI. (cf. sei, ti'o, soi)

to (TO)

Indicates the start of a parenthetical remark which must be grammatical Lojban text. (cf. toi)

.i ba bo lo fengu voksa to be la ractu toi co'e lu ju'i .pat. ju'i .pat. do ma zvati li'u

Next came an angry voicethe Rabbit's'Pat! Pat! Where are you?'

to'i (TO)

Indicates the start of an editorial remark which must be grammatical Lojban text. (cf. toi)

lu .ei do ckeji sei la .alis. cusku .i do barda nixli to'i ju'o drani toi .i .i'e nai ca'o tai klaku .i .e'i ko ca sisti li'u

'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!'

toi (TOI)

Terminator for TO. Used to end an parenthetical or editorial remark. (cf. to, to'i)

Notes

This section needs to address what happens with SEI inside quotations. Which markers are needed to treat the SEI expression as an insertion, and which markers are needed to treat the SEI expression as a verbatim quote.

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