On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jacob Erringto= n <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13 July 2012 00:15, Jonathan Jon= es <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote= :
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > No. lo'u ... le'u is not equivalent to a string of zo= -quotes placed in a
>> > sequence using ce'o. It is equivalent to a single lu .. l= i'u qutoe,
>> > except
>> > that the internal contents only need to be in Lojban, they do= not need
>> > to be
>> > grammatical.
>> >
>> That's one way to see it. A grammatical quote differs fundamen= tally
>> from a multi-word quote in that inside a grammatical quote, the wo= rds
>> actually interact. {lo'u a bu le'u} is fundamentally diffe= rent from
>> {lu a bu li'u}. Inside the lu-quote, bu is actually a magic wo= rd,
>> unlike when inside a lo'u-quote (check in jbofi'e, I'm= not kidding
>> you).
>
>
> Well then, based on that, I would say that we don't want to use lo= 'u ...
> le'u.
>
>>
>> Regardless, I wasn't asserting that a lo'u...le'u quot= e be equivalent
>> to a sequence of zo-quotes; I was simply telling you that's ho= w I see
>> it, considering that pretty much any other interpretation of it fa= ils.
>> In fact, the CLL in that aforementioned chapter, uses a lu-quote t= o
>> quote {abu} rather than a lo'u-quote. I presume that it's = for the very
>> good reason that {bu} is not magical inside a lo'u-quote.
>>
>> >>
>> >> Using {la'e lu abu by cy li'u} is wrong on a diff= erent level, because
>> >> inside a lu..li'u words INTERACT with each other, suc= h that all those
>> >> BY (and ABU) compound to form one variable.
>> >
>> >
>> > I fail to see how "the referent of 'b a r d a'&q= uot; is wrong on /any/ level,
>> > but
>> > it's not a moot point, because I wasn't suggesting th= at it's the correct
>> > way
>> > to do things, but merely that it's GRAMMATICAL.
>> >
>>
>> Like I've said it already, the lu-quote produces one meaningfu= l lump
>> of text, whereas the lo'u-quote produces a sequence of words. = Inside a
>> lu-quote, words get parsed and INTERACT with each other (I dreadfu= lly
>> feel like I'm repeating myself). This causes all the BY to col= lide and
>> form ONE SINGLE VARIABLE. Because we want to get at the individual=
>> letters, allowing them to merge as such is undesired. Therefore, u= sing
>> a lu-quote is unuseful for this purpose.
>
>
> Yeah, I don't see how. Out side of a lu .. li'u, each BY would= fill a
> separate sumti in a bridi, they don't clump together into one thin= g. The
> mere act of quoting a series of letterals doesn't cause them to be= come "one
> single variable".
>

Behaviour for everything is identical inside and out of a lu...= li'u.
BY *do* clump together; they don't fill individual sumti slots. For
instance, {mi tavla ry abu} is "I talk to RA," and not "I ta= lk to R
about A." This is verifiable in jbofi'e.

= In that case, there's no escaping using ce'o, then.
=A0

>> As it apparently wasn't clear, the level on = which {la'e lu by abu ry
>> dy abu li'u} is wrong is a SEMANTIC level. Obviously, it's= grammatical
>> -- I never argued that point.
>
>
> As /I/ said, I fail to see how it is wrong on /any/ level. I then move= d on
> to say that I didn't feel it was up for debate, as I wasn't su= ggesting
> anything about it's correctness /other/ than on a grammatical leve= l.
>
> In other words, it's not wrong grammatically, and I don't see = how it's wrong
> in any other capacity either, but I don't really care.
>
>

Fine.

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>
> .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo= 'o
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