From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jun 01 20:31:11 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K30lL-0007Nr-2A for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:31:11 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.243]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K30lF-00073O-16 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:31:10 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so680255rvf.46 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=K1hm1lO270Remt21n3ht8LTqhW0yiF7EEk2FV3aAUG0=; b=iNbbfk3MJs6UKp2Pr/UQhRUpKG65qJO8aG/8kvcnhh/E5fgIfTFU4qcsZuFb73ePuya8quf/01+HhWugZ2MT4h7NK+LBnRuAOWeJieuNLnxyRa3B1uTIPvtgEKT+aS76WcxAQcg+MMUo2adF55SKLJsll/M12AF6rbu6aOklOJA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=v072oaVaAQiF/lHfi2vE/L/dWJGGIMhsDjDjNEyZT2rt6hDZR4sOmp/ikL+Ct1HBUI/6K+5F2MZVi+SVwk+THiejoca1ln2HJLMiZ77Qd+DS+9ZaQbTRFlwke1Jf8NZvc+ly8e1ekN6Ru6iZyQZ+xusKqZkZ9fDR4wOWibHex88= Received: by 10.142.222.21 with SMTP id u21mr3335642wfg.231.1212377460791; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.215.7 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30806012031x20b2990fxafb79d12a8e31de5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:31:00 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: lerfu question In-Reply-To: <7893649B-EC87-449C-A21D-EC8B197854A9@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f30806012008h73ce2662l755c9960f2e45f1f@mail.gmail.com> <7893649B-EC87-449C-A21D-EC8B197854A9@gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14471 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Minimiscience wrote: > On Jun 1, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Chris Capel wrote: >> >> I'm wondering about this example from la nicte cadzu: >> >> .u'e sai le risna be sy pa roi da'ergau >> >> As it stands, "sy pa" runs together as a lerfu string and makes the >> whole thing ungrammatical. To fix it, even a "bu" won't do (still a >> lerfu string), you have to use a "ku". (This is with my implementation >> of the official PEG parser.) Does all this sound right? > > I think "ku" only works because it terminates "le risna be sy"; to terminate > just the "sy" itself, you have to use "boi". Ahh, that's right. I was thinking "bu" was "boi", but no, it's just bu. But the "bu" *is* required in this case? Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.