[lojban-beginners] Question on Crash Course: .i vs i with no dot

[Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon@gmail.com>]

I'm just starting to learn Lojban, using the Crash Course. I came across this:

pa mlatu cu pinxe i le mlatu cu taske
There is a cat that is drinking. The cat is thirsty.

The course has introduced .i as a sentence separator, but not a lone i without the leading dot. When I tried this on the lojban parser at https://lojban.github.io/ilmentufa/glosser/glosser.htm, it appeared to be accepted as valid Lojban, so I guess it's not a mistake.

What are the rules here? Is the dot not always required in front of the i sentence separator?

Forrest

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