From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 09 22:23:37 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB316-0003om-SU for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:23:37 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB314-0003oc-L4 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:23:36 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cpe-66-68-161-49.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.161.49]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7A5NW3T021280 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:23:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44DAC2D4.4070705@hypermetrics.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:23:32 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Foreign strings References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3488 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Yanis Batura wrote: >>... If there's a Vietnamese >>word "vy" (I don't know Vietnamese, but it's a plausible word, from what I've >>seen of the language), you can't quote it using "vy" as the delimiter. > > > WHY? He's just saying that the delimiter can't appear within the quoted string. {gy} doesn't look/sound like an English word, but (according to him) {vy} does look/sound like a Vietnamese word (and might be one). Hal