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From: Nora LeChevalier <noras@cox.net>
Subject: [lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI
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At 05:51 PM 5/6/04 -0700, Robin wrote:
>On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:20:33PM -0400, Nora LeChevalier wrote:
>[long explanation of what my parser does snipped]
> > I think I've seen someone use "si" as the delimiter.  This majorly
> > complicates things, no?
>
>Not at all.  My parser has no problems with this.  I just tested this on
>
>"zoi si I love zoi! si"
>
>and
>
>"zoi si I love zoi! si si Really! si"
>
>Both of which do exactly what I said they would do.

[snip]
What happens if you "si" some more (to try to get rid of the "zoi")?

"zoi si I love zoi! si si [erases the end-delimiter] si [erases the 
internals] si [new end-delimiter? or deletes the start-delimiter?]

In other words, at what point does "si" again start having normal usage?


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mi'e noras                                             noras@cox.net
Nora LeChevalier