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). In particular, it can be used to indicate who the speaker of a quoted text is. The cmavo sa'a or sa'anai can be added to indicate that the sei-expression is an insertion or part of a verbatim quote respectively. 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).

.i lu ko jgari be cy. sisti sei ko'a cusku li'u

Let go of him, he said.

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 voice--the 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

TOI is currently seldom elidable. I believe that currently it is only elidable at the end of text. It is the belief of .xorxes., me, and possibly others that it should never be elidable. - .aionys.

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