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Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>
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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      TECH(?): can everyone write impeccably grammatical Lojban?
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To: Erik Rauch <erikr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  And Rosta's message of Wed, 23 Sep 1992 19:39:16 +0100
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>Date:         Wed, 23 Sep 1992 19:39:16 +0100
>From: And Rosta <ucleaar%UCL.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

>If one wishes to write perfectly grammatical Lojban, but knows next to no
>Lojban grammar, can one stick whatever hotchpotch one writes inside
>cmavo for ungrammatical quotation & thereby render the text grammatical?

Of course.  Then again, that won't have accomplished much, since such text
would likely be skipped by most listeners, human or computer.

{zoi .gy. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs .gy.} is
grammatical Lojban, but then "He said, 'Ani holech l'beit ha-sefer.'" is
grammatical English, and equally unhelpful in getting accross the import of
what's quoted.

~mark