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From Lojban to English :
Word: tcuskuue [jbovlaste]
Type: fu'ivla
Gloss Word: continued expression
Gloss Word: continue expressing
Gloss Word: express in the sense of "for dialogue in books"
Gloss Word: resume expressing
Gloss Word: resumptive expression
Gloss Word: say in the sense of "for dialogue in books"
Definition: x1 (lu; quote) is said/expressed by x2, followed by expression
x3 (lu; quote), via expressive medium x4, and then continuing
on/proceeding/serially resuming to express/say x5 (lu; quote),
and then x6 (lu; quote), and then x7 (lu; quote), ...
(open-ended terbri structure of arbitrarily many sumti slots).
Notes: x1 and x3 form a continuous or resumptive quotation with no
gap, namely: $x_1 + x_3$ (where '+' denotes concatenation);
likewise, in general: $x_1 + x_3 + x_5 + x_6 + x_7 + ...$ (for
as many terms as have been submitted). This word is useful for
dialogue/monologue in books; for example: ""Hi", said Bill,
"how are you?"" translates to "lu coi li'u tcuskuue la .bil. lu
pei li'u". Notice that x2 can come before or after the selbri
(in the bridi-head or bridi-tail, resp.), corresponding to "x2
said" or "said x2" resp. It is typical to have x3 complete the
thought of x1; in verbal form, there may be a natural or
temporal break between x1 and x3 between x3 and x5, between x5
and x6, vel sim. No audience is necessary. Modify this selbri
via seltau in order to change how the expression is presented
(examples: exclamation, question, imploration, dubious
assertion, etc.). See: "cusku", ".alcu", "tcasnuue"
(which differs from this word in that the expressions
referenced thereby may not be quotes (although see the rest of
this note) and may be replies between parties rather than
continuations of a single utterance/expression/line of
dialogue, unlike those referenced hereby; the open-ended terbri
structure of this word is conceptually very similar in
grammatical form, but not semantic import or intent, to that of
that word). This word may also be used like the
stream-controlling operator '>>' in C++ or the terms of a
'print()' call/statement (delimited by commas) in Python. It
may also be used for internal monologue for protracted or
interrupted musings. "sedu'u" expressions should be avoided
as submissions to the various quotation sumti slots, but may be
taken by some speakers as grammatically acceptable.