From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue May 04 13:37:02 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 04 May 2004 13:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BL6er-0002ka-Pw for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 13:36:54 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA16512 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 16:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 4 May 2004 16:36:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:36:21 -0400 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: bysydy .e xypapa Message-ID: <20040504203621.GE2542@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040504201320.GZ14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040504201320.GZ14939@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 7638 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > My parser handles > > bysydy .e xypapa The official parser simply doesn't support strings of BYs, period. I was wrong to say it thinks they're cmene; in fact, it thinks they are brivla, since there is a CC within the first five letters after y's are removed. The fact that no vowels are left is something that it doesn't notice. OTOH, "by.sy.dy. .e xy.papa" works fine. By the Book, BY has to be pause-separated from what follows it. It *probably* doesn't cause a problem when the next thing is another BY, but the results in other cases are unpredictable. -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. http://www.reutershealth.com --Susan McCarthy (adapted) jcowan@reutershealth.com