Re: Non-figurative lojban as a "style"

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>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?) =20


No need to coin such terms. We designed them into the language.
fu'epe'a means that the following text until fu'o involves some k
ind of
figurative usage(s).

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