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Subject: Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book
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On 28 May 2015, at 23:18, Jorge Llamb=C3=ADas <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Well, it does make it impossible to apply punctuation automatically, sin=
ce the only way that one could do so is to have a script that would parse a=
 variable-lengths string following =E2=80=9Csei=E2=80=9D to find the word o=
f the selbri class. Not that the application of punctuation is a goal of Lo=
jban.
>=20
> Strictly speaking, you can't do that with "lu" and "li'u" either. For exa=
mple, in "zo lu .e zo li'u valsi=E2=80=9D,

Which means what? I don=E2=80=99t read Lojban. (I don=E2=80=99t read Zulu e=
ither, but I published =E2=80=9CU-Alice Ezweni Lezimanga=E2=80=9D.)

As far as I can tell you=E2=80=99ve written =E2=80=9C=E2=80=98e=E2=80=99=E2=
=80=9D or something like that.=20


> "lu" and "li'u" are not quoting anything, so an automatic punctuator that=
 didn't know how to parse the sentence would get it wrong. Admittedly you p=
robably won't find many such cases in practice.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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