Re: Non-figurative lojban as a "style"

[Ashley Yakeley <AshleyB@HALCYON.COM>]

At 1997-11-12 20:25, Chris Bogart wrote:

>I propose that rather than worry about figurative Lojban too much we
>simply coin some english or lojban terms for two different lojban
>"styles" -- one allowing things like unmarked irony, metonymy, allegory,
>etc., and one not.  (There's probably a better linguistic term for this
>-- mode? register? mood? dialect? pragmalect?)

'Usage', perhaps, since it's the same language, but used in two different
ways.


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