From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 20 19:56:57 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeKJF-00017w-EV for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:56:57 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeKJC-00017l-RQ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:56:57 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090821025648136.DVUQ8845@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:56:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A28452D for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:56:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Referring to selma'o in Lojban Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:56:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <5715b9300908200731lc1a4ba8s642007a3a81afdba@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560908200856u4c49d587j5d4141ad7b96ae1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560908200856u4c49d587j5d4141ad7b96ae1e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908202256.45962.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2071 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thursday 20 August 2009 11:56:12 Jorge Llambías wrote: > BU, ZEI and SI, which act on the "preceding word", will act on a full > prededing block if another word has already acted, so "zo si" forms > one block (controlled by "zo" because it comes first) and the next > "si" will delete the whole block. Another "si" will delete whatever > word precedes that. So "zo si bu zei zo si bu" is processed like this: (zo si) bu zei zo si bu ((zo si) bu) zei zo si bu (((zo si) bu) zei zo) si bu bu error, because there is no preceding word. Right? What about "zo y si"? "zo y bu"? Pierre